People
Puritan leader who became the head of English parliament after the civil war
Oliver Cromwell
Put a tax on paper, dice, envelopes and playing cards
Stamp Act
This was an attempt to "Free the Minds of Men from Prejudice"
Diderot's Encyclopedia
The names of the first two political parties to emerge in England:
Tories and Whigs
The signing of this document sparked the American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
The first Prime Minister of England
Sir Robert Walpole
Navigation Acts
Habeas Corpus
The English Civil war was fought between these two groups
Cavaliers (Royalists) vs. Roundheads (Parliament)
The Three branches of Government
The First English Monarch to be executed
Charles I
Five Acts that were retribution for the Americans actions during the Boston Tea Party
The intolerable acts
The name of the group headed by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War
The New Model Army
were co-monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 following the Glorious Revolution and their acceptance of the English Bill of Rights
Mary and William of Orange
The Boston Tea Party
John Locke
a reformer group that demanded that titles of nobility be abolished. They also thought English men should have the right to vote.
The Levellers
The invisible agreement between the rulers and the ruled
Social Contract
Under Cromwells religiously minded government, England came under this time of rule
Puritan Rule
The motto of the colonists who resisted British Rule
No Taxation without Representation
"Society would be chaos without an absolute ruler"
Thomas Hobbes
extended the Canadian border (British territory) into the Ohio River Valley and eliminated lands that were claimed by Massachusetts, Virginia and Connecticut
The Quebec Act
Places where wealthy women and aristocrats met to discuss enlightenment ideas
Salons
English Bill of Rights
General during the revolution and Americas first President
George Washington