Flashcards
Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Cards in this deck (28)
- 1Enlightenment IdeasThe Enlightenment Period was 1700's-1800's; aka age of reason; One of the causes for the American Revolution
- 2Magna CartaForced King John to give his assent
- 3Glorious RevolutionThe overthrow of King James II
- 4English Bill of RightsFurther restricted the monarch's power
- 5John LockeJohn Locke was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers
- 6Natural RightsRights to life, liberty, and property that no government could take away
- 7Social ContractAn agreement among the people of a society
- 8Baron De MontesquieuA French writer who developed the idea of dividing the government into 3 separate powers
- 9JamestownA settlement in Virginia
- 10BicameralTwo chambers or branches
- 11House of BurgessesThe first representative assembly
- 12PilgrimsSomeone who travels to a new place for religious reasons
- 13Mayflower Compactfirst written framework of government established in the United States
- 14Indentured ServantsPeople had to work for an employer for a certain number of years to pay for their passage to the new world
- 15Triangular Slave TradeA transatlantic trade with slaves that had 3 stops
- 16Salutary Neglectavoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England
- 17French-Indian WarNorth American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War
- 18MercantilismA country tries to gain wealth through trading with other countries
- 19BoycottRefusing to use something
- 20Stamp ActA British tax on stamps
- 21Declaratory Actan Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act
- 22Boston MassacreBritish soldiers open fired on a crowd killing 5 American colonists
- 23Boston Tea PartyColonists dumped 90,000 pounds of British tea into the Boston Harbor
- 24Intolerable ActsPunished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
- 25"Common Sense"A book written by Thomas Paine
- 26Second Continental CongressMeeting of colonial delegates in 1775
- 27Declaration of IndependenceDeclared American independence
- 28Articles of ConfederationThe first official laws for the United States