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| Question | Answer |
| Enlightenment Period | 1700's aka Age of Reason; 1 of the causes for the American Revolution |
| Magna Carta | a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his signeture in June 1215 at |
| Glorious Revolution | was the overthrow of King James II of England, Also known as the Revolution of 1688 |
| English bill of rights | the Declaration of Rights, declaring the rights and liberties of the subjects and settling the succession in William III and Mary II. |
| John locke | was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers |
| Natural Rights | Rights 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. |
| Social Contact | an 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. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment. |
| Jamestown | he Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas |
| Bicameral | Of a legislative body, having two branches or chambers. |
| House of burgesses | the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. |
| Pilgrims | A group of English Puritans, persecuted in their own country, who emigrated to America. The first group arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620. |
| Indenture servants | a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time |
| Triangular Slave Trade | a 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. |
| Salutary Neglect | was a long-standing British Policy in the 13 colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade. |
| French and Indian war | French and Indian War definition. A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. |
| Mercantilism | Mercantilism was a theory of trade stressing that a nation’s economic strength depended on exporting more than it imported. |
| Boycott | to 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 |
| Stamp act | an 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. |
| Declaratory Act | was 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. |
| Boston Massacre | The 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. |
| Intolerable Acts | The 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. |
| Commnon Sense | Common 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. |
| Second Continental Congress | The 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. |
| Declaration Of Independance | The document that established that the colonies were independent from England. |
| Articles Of Confederation | the first form of government for the 13 colonies |
| Daniel Shays' Rebellion | Shays' 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. |
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