2. A __________________ is a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect. (Page 103)

3. The principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime is called ____________________ . (Page 104)

4. The right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty is called ___________________ .

(Page 105)

5. The publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation is called __________________ . (Page 105)

6. An ___________________ is someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time. (Page 110)

7. The upper class of colonial society that included wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, royal officials, and successful lawyers were known as

_______________ . (Page 110)

8. By about 1700, slave traders in the British colonies had developed a regular routine called the _________________ , that trade would be between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa.

(Page 115)

9. Not every African in America was a slave, but slavery came to be restricted to people of African descent, thus slavery was linked to ___________ , the belief that one race was superior or inferior to another. (Page 116)

10. Fearing more trouble, colonial authorities wrote _____________________ , that were strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves. (Page 116)

11. The first colonial poet was, ______________ , and her book The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America were first published in 1650, in England. (Page 120)

12. A poet named ___________________ , was an enslaved African in Boston that had her first poem published in the 1760s when she was about 14. (Page 120)

13. Perhaps the best-loved colonial writer, _______________ , who at the age of 17 moved from Boston to Philadelphia and started a newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette. (Page 120)

14. In 1690, Locke published Two Treatises on Government and in his influential work, he argued that people have certain ______________, that is, rights that belong to every human being from birth. (Page 122)

15. The ____________________ , or division of power of government into separate branches, that protects the rights of people because it keeps any individual or group from gaining too much power. (Page 123)