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| Enlightenment | a movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society |
| Magna Carta | a document that protected the nobles authority and privileges |
| Glorious Revolution | the transfer of power monarch to parliament |
| English Bill of Rights | it was further restricted monarchs power |
| Mayflower COmpact | a written set of rules for first settlers in America |
| House of Burgesses | the first representative assembly in colonies |
| Dicameral | the legislature composed of an upper house, the Senate, and a lower house, the House of Delegates |
| John Locke | an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism" |
| Natural Rights (aka inalienable rights) | rights that people supposedly have under natural law |
| Social Contract | an agreement among people in a society with the government |
| Baron De Montesquieu | developed the idea of separate branches of government to balance each other |
| Separation of Powers | a political doctrine originating in the writings of Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws where he urged for a constitutional government with three separate branches of government |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | they describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers |
| Triangular Trade | the system of trading slaves across the Atlantic |
| Salutary Neglect | it was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole , to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries |
| French Indian War (aka Seven years War) | a war that was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military |
| Mercantilism | the belief in the benefits of profitable trading |
| Stamp Act | a British law requiring colonists to attach stamps to newspapers and legal documents |
| Boycott | the withdraw from commercial or social relations of a country, organization, or person |
| Boston Massacre | colonists were angered by and made trouble for British |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor |
| Coercive Acts (aka Intolerable Acts) | it restricted colonists civil rights |
| Proclamation of 1763 | it forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains |
| First Continental COngress | representatives from colonies met and sent document to King George demanding to restore rights |
| Olive Branch Petition | a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain |
| Second Continental Congress | decided to write Declaration of Independence |
| Declaration of Independece | a formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | an American Founding Father who was principal author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Articles of Confederation | the original constitution of the US which was ratified in 1781 |
| Daniel Shay's Rebellion | 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 |
| Philadelphia Convention (aka Constitutional Convention) | the gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787 |
| James Madison | was a political theorist, American statesman, and served as the fourth President of the United States |
| Common Sense | 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 |
| Quartering Act | 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 |
| "No Taxation Without Representation" | a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution |
| Parliament | the British legislature |
| Legislature | a group of people that makes laws |
| Independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control |
| Confederation | a group of states that band together for a common purpose |
| Indentured Servant | a person who agreed to work for a period of 7 years to pay off the cost of their passage to the colonies |
| Middle Passage | the journey across the Atlantic Ocean made by slave ships |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | "shot heard around the world"; first battle of the Revolutionary War |
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