Vocabulary
A percentage that is added to the original amount of money borrowed
What is interest?
What is Raw Materials?
This document let the pilgrims agree to make rules and laws based on the well-being of the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What three main ideas lead to the deaths of many colonist
Environment, Native American trade, and lack of skill
This movement encouraged people to have loyalty to preachers
What is the Great Awakening?
A political system in which voters elect others to make laws
What is Representative Government?
This was an exchange of ideas, plants, animals, diseases and people across the Atlantic
What is the Colombian Exchange?
The Pilgrims along their voyage to Virginia had this happen to their ship
What is getting off course/lost?
The Virginia Company established this to allow voters to elect Representatives to make laws
What is the House of Burgesses ?
Enlightenment thinkers believed in using this to solve problems, and understand the world around them
An individual who owes something to another person
What is a debtor?
These animals were brought over from Europe to North America?
What are Chickens, pigs, cattle and horses
The Mayflower Compact established this type of Government in the New World?
- Democratic
-Representative
-Monarchy
What is representative Government?
This colony was founded to solve economic problems
What is Georgia
According to this enlightenment thinker the governments job to protect your natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
The division of power of government into separate branches
What is Separation of Powers?
List three reasons King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta
- high taxes
- lost land
-Maybe killed his nephew
- unpredictable
Plymouth Colony was important because it set up the idea of need for leadership and ______ ?
what are laws/rules?
This Colony was founded for religious freedoms for Catholics
What is Maryland?
He wanted to separate the powers of government into three branches?
Who is Montesquieu?
Rights that you are born with that cannot be taken away?
What are natural rights?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This Colonial Region used the sea for their economy
What is the New England Colonies?
This colonial region economy was based on rice, indigo, Tabaco and cotton
What are the southern colonies?
This Person was charged with libel due to printing stories about the governor of New York
Who is John Zenger?