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Chapter 2 Vocab
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- 1Enlightenment Period1700's aka Age of Reason; 1 of the causes for the American Revolution
- 2Magna Cartaa charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his signeture in June 1215 at
- 3Glorious Revolutionwas the overthrow of King James II of England, Also known as the Revolution of 1688
- 4English bill of rightsthe Declaration of Rights, declaring the rights and liberties of the subjects and settling the succession in William III and Mary II.
- 5John lockewas an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers
- 6Natural RightsRights that people supposedly have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights.
- 7Social Contactan actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each.
- 8Baron de Montesquieuwas a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.
- 9Jamestownhe Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
- 10BicameralOf a legislative body, having two branches or chambers.
- 11House of burgessesthe first legislative assembly in the American colonies.
- 12PilgrimsA group of English Puritans, persecuted in their own country, who emigrated to America. The first group arrived on the Mayflower in 1620.
- 13Mayflower CompactAn agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620.
- 14Indenture servantsa person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time
- 15Triangular Slave Tradea pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.
- 16Salutary Neglectwas a long-standing British Policy in the 13 colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade.
- 17French and Indian warFrench and Indian War definition. A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763.
- 18MercantilismMercantilism was a theory of trade stressing that a nation’s economic strength depended on exporting more than it imported.
- 19Boycottto engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a person, store, or organization) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions
- 20Stamp actan act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
- 21Declaratory Actwas an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
- 22Boston MassacreThe Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
- 23Intolerable ActsThe Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
- 24Commnon SenseCommon Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.
- 25Second Continental CongressThe Second Continental Congress met in 1775, when the Revolutionary war had started. Things were going badly, and the armed forces were disorganized. The Continental Congress created the Continental Army and named George Washington as commander-in-chief.
- 26Declaration Of IndependanceThe document that established that the colonies were independent from England.
- 27Articles Of Confederationthe first form of government for the 13 colonies
- 28Daniel Shays' RebellionShays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.