7th Grade - Ch. 4: Life of the Colonies

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Across
  1. 1. best-loved colonial writer and businessman, community leader, scientist, inventor, and diplomat
  2. 6. a group of people who have the power to make laws
  3. 7. signed a contract to work from 4-10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas
  4. 10. the belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God
  5. 11. a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect
  6. 15. strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves
  7. 17. first colonial poet that expressed the joys and hardships of life in Puritan New England
  8. 20. made up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans
  9. 21. the publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation
  10. 22. a school supported by taxes
Down
  1. 2. rights that belong to every human being from birth
  2. 3. Massachusetts preacher that called on people to examine their lives and commit themselves to God
  3. 4. the upper class of colonial society
  4. 5. division of the power of government into separate branches
  5. 8. enslaved African poet in Boston
  6. 9. 3-way trade between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa
  7. 12. someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time
  8. 13. the principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific charge
  9. 14. a family that includes other family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and relatives
  10. 16. the right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty
  11. 18. the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another
  12. 19. schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write