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| 7408743218 | English cultural domination | This ideas represents that most of the population of the colonies was English, but Africans and Europeans created some diversity in the culture of the colonies. | 0 | |
| 7408743219 | Socioeconomic status | Their class system was based on economics with wealthy landowners at the top, and craftspeople and common people made up the majority. | 1 | |
| 7408743220 | subsistence farming | Farming that provides for the needs of the people on the farm, but nothing else. (New England mainly) | 2 | |
| 7408743222 | Great Awakening | A movement characterized by fervent expressions of religious feeling among masses of people. (1730-1740) | 3 | |
| 7408743227 | Poor Richard's Almanac | Written by Benjamin Franklin, this book written in 1732 contained aphorisms and advice. | 4 | |
| 7408743229 | John Peter Zenger; libel case | Published a true, but unflattering article about New York's royal governor. He was acquited by the jury. (1735) | 5 | |
| 7408743231 | colonial governors | In the royal colonies, these were appointed by the King; in the proprietary colonies, these were appointed by the proprietor; in Rhode Island and Connecticut, these were elected by popular vote | 6 | |
| 7408743232 | colonial legislatures | In every colony the lower of these two houses was elected; this lower house controlled taxes. Only in Rhode Island and Connecticut were the upper houses elected. | 7 | |
| 7408743233 | town meetings | The dominant form of local government in the New England colonies | 8 | |
| 7408743234 | county government | In the South, local government was carried on by a sheriff and other officials who served on this. | 9 | |
| 7408743235 | limited democracy | Only white, land-owning males could vote, and colonial assemblies mostly represented the elite. | 10 |
