Social Studies Chapter 4 Vocab and People

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Across
  1. 2. First colonial poet. Wrote 'The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America.'
  2. 3. travelling preacher who called on people to come back to God during the Great Awakening. Famous for sermon on "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
  3. 5. rights that belong to every human being from birth
  4. 7. best-loved colonial write. At 17, started writing "Pennsylvania Gazette." Wrote "Poor Richard's Almanac" which was very popular
  5. 9. strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves
  6. 11. a three-way trade between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa
  7. 12. the right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty
  8. 17. the principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime
  9. 18. schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write
  10. 19. the belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God
  11. 20. made u of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans
  12. 21. the publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation
Down
  1. 1. division of the power of government into separate branches
  2. 4. Wheatley Enslaved American poet. Wrote poetry first when 14 in 1760s and later gained freedom. First American poet of African descent
  3. 6. a group of people who have the power to make laws
  4. 8. upper class of colonial society
  5. 10. a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect
  6. 13. grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins
  7. 14. someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time
  8. 15. the belief that one race is superior of inferior to another
  9. 16. a school supported by taxes