Vocabulary
Our English Heritage
The English Colonies
Colonial Society
Birth of a Democratic Nation
100

Latin for Great Charter; this document limited the power of the King in 1215

What is the Magna Carta?

100
Peaceful transfer of power.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
100
The founders of Massachusetts were called
What is Puritans?
100

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

What are the Middle Colonies?

100
The British had fought a long, costly war against France called the
What is The French and Indian War?
200

Movement that spread new ideas about law, government, and science that could improve society.

What is the Enlightment?

200
England was ruled by king or queen.
What is a monarch?
200

poor people who were able to come to the colonies and work until their contracts expired

What are indentured servants?

200

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

What are the New England colonies?

200

to refuse to buy

What is boycott?

300
A lawmaking body
What is a legislature/Parliament?
300
The system of law made by judges in the process of resolving cases; brought to America from English courts.
What is common law?
300
This colony was founded by the Duke of York, brother of King Charles II
What is New York?
300
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

What are the Southern Colonies?

300
The Stamp Act of 1765 infuriated the colonists and they created a slogan that embodied their feeling, it said
What is “No Taxation without Representation"?
400
A ruling in an earlier case that was similar.
What is a precedent?
400
Idea about dividing the branches of government into different parts to balance each other so that no one part can become too strong or threaten individual rights.
What is Separation of Powers?
400
Large scale agriculture that developed in the Southern Colonies
What are plantations?
400
Religious Paranoia leads to trials, hangings, and more 

What are the Salem Witch Trials?

400
Colonies sent representatives called delegates to meet in Philadelphia. This meeting is known as the
What is First Continental Congress?
500
Spirit of equality
What is egalitarianism?
500
First representative assembly created in the colonies; it had little power but marked the beginning of self-government in colonial America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
500

The trade in enslaved Africans was at the heart of what came to be called

What is the Triangular Trade?

500

the theory that a country's power depends on its wealth

What is Mercantilism?

500

Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine that inspired colonists to support the effort against Great Britain

What is "Common Sense"?

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