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| Frage | Antworten |
| Enlightenment | Ideas of a cultural movement |
| Magna Carta | Document protecting the nobles privileges and authority. |
| Glorious Revolution | The peaceful transfer of power in england that resulted in the monarch having less power than the parliament. |
| English Bill of Rights | Document restricted the monarch's power. |
| Mayflower contract | Written plan for government sign in the Mayflower. |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia created the first representative legislature in the New World in 1619. |
| Dicameral | A two-part body consisting of the House of Representatives and the state. |
| John Locke | English philosopher whose social contract theory influenced the declaration. |
| Natural rights | Freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property. |
| Social contract | An agreement among people in a society with a government. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | Philosopher who came up with "separation of powers" |
| Separation of power | Each branch is given certain powers so as to check and balance other branches. |
| Fundamental orders of connecticut | First written constitution in America. |
| Triangular trade | A pattern of trade that developed between the americas, africa, and Europe. |
| Salutary neglect | IT is the policy of loose control of the colonies by the british. |
| French Indian War | English war that caused the debt which led to tax conflicts. |
| Mercantilism | The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys. |
| Stamp Act | Resented British for high taxes on newspapers and legal documents. |
| Boycott | The refusal to purchase certain goods. |
| Boston Massacre | On March 5th, 1770, british fired into a crowd of protesters in boston. |
| Boston tea party | Protesters threw crates of tea into Boston harbor to protest taxes on tea. |
| Intolerable Acts | These acts punished the Boston colonists for the Boston Tea Party. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | England said colonists could not settle new lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains. |
| First continental congress | Meeting in Philadelphia, made a document sent to King George III demanding that the rights of the colonist be restored. |
| Olive branch Petition | Letter written to King George III that appealed to the king to address colonial grievances to avoid war. |
| Declaration of Independence | The document adopted by the SCC to separate from English. |
| Thomas Jefferson | The author of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Articles of Confederation | The first constitution of the united states. |
| Daniel Shays' Rebellion | Daniel Shays led a Rebellion of Massachusetts farmers against the federal government under the AOC. |
| Philadelphia Convention | Met may-sept. 1787 delegates suppose to fix the Articles of Confederation. |
| James madison | Father of the Constitution. |
| Common Sense | Explained why american colonist should declare independence. |
| Quartering Act | Part of the Intolerable Act, act that required colonist to house and feed British soldiers. |
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