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Chapter 2 vocab
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- 1Enlightenment ideas1700's ; aka Age Of Reason ; 1 of the causes for the american revolution
- 2Magna Cartaany fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing rights and liberties.
- 3glorious revolutionEnglish Revolution
- 4english bill of rightsThe 1689 English Bill of Rights was a British Law
- 5John Locke1632–1704, English philosopher
- 6natural rightsGod given rights
- 7Social contractthe 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.
- 8Baron de montesquieu1689–1755, French philosophical writer.
- 9JamesTownvillage in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957.
- 10Bicameralhaving two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- 11House Of BurgessesThe first legislative assembly in the American colonies.
- 12PilgrimsPilgrims 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
- 13Mayflower compactThe Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
- 14Indentured ServantsA 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.
- 15Triangular Slave Tradea pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England.
- 16Salutary NeglectAmerican 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.
- 17French-Indian warthe war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763.
- 18Mercantilismpractices or spirit; commercialism.
- 19boycottto refuse to purchase certain goods
- 20stamp acta tax on printed materials such as legal documents, mail, newspaper, ect.
- 21declaration actThe American Colonies Act
- 22Boston Massacremarch 5 1770 British soldiers opened fire on a crowd killing 5 american colonists
- 23Boston Tea Partypolitical protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
- 24intolerable actAmerican Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
- 25"common Sense"challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy.
- 26second continental congressconvention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 27declaration of independenceformal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
- 28Articles of Confederationthe original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
- 29Daniel Shays rebellionSeries of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.