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| Question | Answer |
| Enlightenment Ideas | The Enlightenment Period was 1700's-1800's; aka age of reason; One of the causes for the American Revolution |
| Magna Carta | Forced King John to give his assent |
| Glorious Revolution | The overthrow of King James II |
| English Bill of Rights | Further restricted the monarch's power |
| John Locke | John Locke was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers |
| Natural Rights | Rights to life, liberty, and property that no government could take away |
| Social Contract | An agreement among the people of a society |
| Baron De Montesquieu | A French writer who developed the idea of dividing the government into 3 separate powers |
| Jamestown | A settlement in Virginia |
| Bicameral | Two chambers or branches |
| House of Burgesses | The first representative assembly |
| Pilgrims | Someone who travels to a new place for religious reasons |
| Mayflower Compact | first written framework of government established in the United States |
| Indentured Servants | People had to work for an employer for a certain number of years to pay for their passage to the new world |
| Triangular Slave Trade | A transatlantic trade with slaves that had 3 stops |
| Salutary Neglect | avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England |
| French-Indian War | North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War |
| Mercantilism | A country tries to gain wealth through trading with other countries |
| Boycott | Refusing to use something |
| Stamp Act | A British tax on stamps |
| Declaratory Act | an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers open fired on a crowd killing 5 American colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dumped 90,000 pounds of British tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | Punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| "Common Sense" | A book written by Thomas Paine |
| Second Continental Congress | Meeting of colonial delegates in 1775 |
| Declaration of Independence | Declared American independence |
| Articles of Confederation | The first official laws for the United States |
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