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| Magna Carta | Document that protected the nobles' privileges and authority, or control. |
| Glorious revolution | Changed government in England. From this time on, no ruler would have more power than parliament. |
| Glorious revolution | |
| Parliament | A group of representatives in England that came to have more power than monarch. It made the colonists want to self-govern. 1300's |
| English Bill of rights | Document that guaranteed free elections to Parliament, the right to a fair trial, and the elimintaion of cruel and unusual punishments. |
| Bicameral | A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses. |
| House of burgesses | The lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. |
| Mayflower compact | It was an agreement, or contract, among a group of people that stood for rules to govern the Plymouth colonists if they were to survive in a new land. |
| Salutary neglect | Refers to the unofficial, long-term seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. |
| French indian war | A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. |
| merchantilism | The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism |
| Boston Massacre | Street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. |
| Boston tea party | Raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. |
| Natural rights | Possessed rights to life, liberty, and property that no government could take away. |
| Social Contract | An agreement among the people in a society. |
| Fundamental orders of Connecticut | First written Constitution which called for an assembly of elected representatives from each town to make laws. |
| Triangular trade | Pattern of trade that developed among the Americas, Africa, and Europe. |
| Separation of powers | Separated legislative, executive, and judicial functions of government and assign, or appoint, each to a separate branch of government. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | Developed idea about dividing the branches into different parts to balance each other. |
| Enlightenment | Many of the rights that American citizens enjoy today. |
| John Locke | English philosopher that was considered an Enlightenment thinker who believed that God had created an orderly universe. |
| Mercantilism | Theory that a country's power depends on its wealth. |
| Boycott | Refuse to buy , British goods. |
| Boston Massacre | Street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770 between a mob throwing snowballs, stones, sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. |
| Boston tea party | Raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. |
| Coercive Acts | The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government |
| Proclamation of 1763 | It forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. |
| First continental congress | Lasted seven weeks. Delegates sent a document to King George 3 demanding that the rights of the colonists be restored, or given back. |
| Olive branch petition | The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. |
| Second continental congress | Spent many months debating the best course of action against independence. |
| Declaration of Independence | Argued that the British government did not look after the interests of th ecolonists. More than a list of complaints, but a document that set forth the colonists' beliefs about the rights of individuals. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence and served as a president from 1801 to 1809, between John Adams and Madison. |
| Articles of Confederation | Established a system for cooperation, or "league of friendship," among independent states. |
| Daniel Shays' rebellion | When Massachusetts courts threatened to take his farm as payment for his debts, Shays felt the state had no right to punish him for a problem it had created. Shays armed about 1,200 farmers in an attack on a federal arsenal. |
| Philadelphia Convention | The convention, meeting in Philadelphia, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. |
| James Madison | A leader in the drafting of the Constitution, he worked tirelessly for its adoption by the states, contributing several essays to The Federalist Papers |
| Common sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation. |
| Quartering act | Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. |
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