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This gave the east India company a tax break in their tea, which made it cheaper than tea that was being smuggled into the colonies from other places.
Tea Act of 1773
When a group of people or nations form an alliance.
Confederation
Relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, as distinct from military matters.
Civil
Consists of the president, his or her advisors and various departments and agencies.
Executive Branch
Relating to economics or the economy.
Economic
The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic.
Colombian Exchange
A system in which a rich a rich and powerful country control other countries, or a desire for control over other countries.
Imperialism
American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown.
Loyalist
Those which can never be taken away, either voluntarily or involuntarily
Unalienable Rights
Signed by U.S. and British representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the war of American Revolution.
Treaty of Paris
An intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
Enlightenment
The first 10 amendments to the u.s constitution ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
Bill Of Rights
A made of government that combines a general government with regional governments, or other sub-unit in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.
Federalism
A theater of the seven years war which pitted the North American colonies of the British empire against those of the French.
French and Indian War
A system of transatlantic trade in the 16th century between Europe, Africa, and the Americans.
Triangular Trade
The economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism
Made up of the House and Senate known collectively as the congress.
Legislative Branch
Three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a states total population for legislative representation and taxation.
3/15 Compromise
Decides the constitutionality of federal laws and resolves others disputes about federal laws.
Judicial Branch
Putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime.
Internment
The constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial, decisions they deem unconstitutional.
Nullification
An international protocol of equal privileges for all countries trading with china and to support china's territorial and administrative integrity.
Open Door Policy
Large companies that controlled an industry or a sector giving them the ability to control the prices of the goods and services they provided.
Monopoly
A series of religious revivals in American Christian history.
The Great Awakening
A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.
New Deal