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FlashCards por Carrington Monro, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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| Questão | Responda |
| 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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