Chapter 4 Vocabulary

a list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

• Constitution
• Bill of Rights
• Amendment List
• Civil Rights Act

a group of people who have the power to make laws

• executive
• legislature
• judiciary
• administrative

A set of laws that were designed to help owners by restricting the rights and activities of slaves.  No weapons, no groups, etc.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Freedom Papers
• Civil Rights Act
• Slave Codes

The belief that one race is superior or inferior to another… It is the motivation for why enslavement of Africans was considered acceptable.

• Racism
• Segregation
• Discrimination
• Prejudice

This was the name of the second leg of the triangular trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves.

• African Trade Network
• Colonial Exchange
• Middle Passage
• Transatlantic Route

This economic system consisted of cycle of trade between three different locations, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Bilateral Trade
• Colonial Exchange
• Global Trade Network
• Triangular Trade

English document in 1215 that put restrictions on the power of the king and allowing the people to form a legislature.

• Petition of Right
• Magna Carta
• English Civil War
• Bill of Rights

this person was part of the upper class society of the colonies that typically included planters, merchants, lawyers, and politicians

• Colonial tradesman
• Colonial farmer
• middle class

• gentry

A person that learns a trade by working along side that person for a given amount of time.

• Trainee
• Apprentice
• Intern
• Mentor

this groups was made up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans… it was the largest social class in the colonies

• Laborers
• Merchant Class
• middle class

• Aristocracy