Fichas
Chapter 2 Flashcards
Fichas del conjunto (14)
- 1Magna CartaPromised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons.
- 2Glorious RevolutionThe events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
- 3ParliamentThe legislature of certain British colonies and possessions
- 4English Bill of RightsAn Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
- 5BicameralHaving two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body
- 6House of BurgessesThe first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America
- 7Mayflower CompactThe first governing document of Plymouth Colony
- 8Salutary NeglectA long-standing British Policy in the 13 colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade
- 9French Indian WarThe beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain
- 10Proclamation of 1763Provided that all lands west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists
- 11MercantilismAn economic theory and practice, dominant in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers
- 12Boston MassacreAn incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others
- 13"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
- 14Boston Tea PartyA political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773