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Ch. 4 review
Question | Answer |
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debtor | person who cannot pay money he or she owes |
slave code | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved african americans and denied them of basic rights |
mercanitism | the english's belief that is that a colony should benefit from it's home country |
puritans | strict religious people who did not want to seperate from the church |
thomas hooker | founded conneticut of the americas b/c he wanted to limit the power of the gov |
roger williams | founded rhode island b/c of freedom of religion and seperation of church and state |
anne hutchenson | symbol of woman's rights, religious preacher who was banished becuase she claimed god spoke to her. |
william penn | founded pennsylvania and invented the holy experiment based off of quaker beliefs |
james oglethorp | founded georgia so debtors could hold land |
john peter zenger | gov accused him of libel, helped create freedom of press |
libel | damaging someones reputation |
town meetings | started in new england colonies, helped influence democracy |
slaves | people who worked and were treated and sold as property |
indentured servants | people who worked to become free |
the great awakening | a religious movement through the colonies |
the enlightenment | the scientific reasoning designed to make new scientific laws |