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Question | Answer |
Magna Carta | An authorization that King John was forced to issue by English barons |
Glorious Revolution "Bloodless Revolution" | When Mary II and Her husband William III replaced her father James II |
Parliament | The highest authority in Great Britain |
English Bill of Rights | An act that was passed on December 16,1689 by Parliament |
Bicameral | 2 branches/chambers |
House of Burgesses | 1st Legislative body in Britain-American colonies democratically elected |
Mayflower Compact | What the pilgrims had to sign before boarding the mayflower to flee from religious persecution |
Salutary Neglect | England Ignored 13 colonies for 150 years |
French & Indian War | French and Native Americans fights against Britain and Colonists |
Proclamation of 1763 | Forbid settlement past a line along the Appalachian Mountains |
Mercantilism | Profitable trading |
Boston Masscare | Patriots threw snowballs at British guards and they let fire killing 5 and hitting 11 |
No taxation without representation | People must be consulted before taxing them |
Boston Tea Party | 342 cases of tea were thrown overboard in the Boston Harbor |
Legislature | people that make laws |
Boycott | To withdraw from |
Independence | To be free and self dependent |
Confederation | Number of groups in alliance |
Natural Rights | Rights everyone is born with: Liberty and property and no man can take it away |
Social Contract | An agreement between government and the people |
Baron de Montesquieu | "separation of powers" |
Enlightenment | Reason science and reason could improve |
Indentured Servant | Person under contract to work for someone else |
Triangular trade | trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas |
Middle Passage | Slave ships crossed Atlantic Ocean |
Stamp Act | Tax on anything on paper |
Intolerable Acts | Punished colonists for Boston Tea Party |
Quartering Act | COlonists had to house and feed British soldiers |
Common Sense | pamphlet written by Thomas Paine |
Battle of Lexington And Concord | First Revolutionary War |
Second Continental Congress | Declaration of Independence was made |
Declaration of Independence | majority Written by Thomas Jefferson and 2nd continental congress |
Thomas Jefferson | Wrote most of the declaration of independence |
Articles of confederation | Original constitution of the US |
Daniel Shay's Rebellion | name given by american farmers against law enforcement |
Philadelphia convention | drafted constitution of US |
James madison | political theorist |
Olive branch petiton | North america to avoid war against Britain |
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