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| Question | Answer |
| Enlightenment ideas | 1700's ; aka Age Of Reason ; 1 of the causes for the american revolution |
| Magna Carta | any fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing rights and liberties. |
| glorious revolution | English Revolution |
| english bill of rights | The 1689 English Bill of Rights was a British Law |
| John Locke | 1632–1704, English philosopher |
| natural rights | God given rights |
| Social contract | the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members. |
| Baron de montesquieu | 1689–1755, French philosophical writer. |
| JamesTown | village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957. |
| Bicameral | having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body. |
| House Of Burgesses | The first legislative assembly in the American colonies. |
| Pilgrims | Pilgrims is a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, with the men commonly called Pilgrim Fathers |
| Mayflower compact | The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony |
| Indentured Servants | A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country. |
| Triangular Slave Trade | a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England. |
| Salutary Neglect | American history term that refers to an unofficial and long-term 17th & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. |
| French-Indian war | the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763. |
| Mercantilism | practices or spirit; commercialism. |
| boycott | to refuse to purchase certain goods |
| stamp act | a tax on printed materials such as legal documents, mail, newspaper, ect. |
| declaration act | The American Colonies Act |
| Boston Massacre | march 5 1770 British soldiers opened fire on a crowd killing 5 american colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. |
| intolerable act | American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. |
| "common Sense" | challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. |
| second continental congress | convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| declaration of independence | formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. |
| Articles of Confederation | the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. |
| Daniel Shays rebellion | 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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