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Chap 5 Mrs. Morris
Chapter 5 Section 1-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bicameral Legislature | A lawmaking body made up of town houses. |
| Town Meeting | political meeting at which people make desicions on local issues; used primarily in New England. |
| Privy Council | group of royal advisers who set policies for britians american colonies. |
| Libel | a false statement, usually published, that damges a person's reputation |
| Parliament | the british national legislature |
| House of Burgesses | colonial virginia's elected assemblies |
| John Peter Zenger | dealt with the issue of freedom of the press |
| Dominion of New England | united the northern colonies under one government |
| Edmund Andros | royal governor of the Dominion |
| Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of James II |
| English bill of Rights | the power of the english monarchy are reduced |
| mercantilism | practice of creating and maintaning wealth by carefully controlling trade |
| balance of trade | relationship between what goods a country purchases from other countries and what goods it sells to other countries |
| imports | items that a country purchases from other countries |
| exports | items that a country sells to other countries |
| duties | taxes on imported goods |
| free enterprise | economic system in which there is competition between business with little government control |
| triangular trade | trading networks in which goods and slaves move among england, the american colonies, the west indies, and west africa |
| Navigation acts | a series of english laws that required the american colonies to trade primarily with england; set duties on some goods |
| middle passage | voyage that brought enslaved africans across the atlantic ocean to north america and the west indies |
| Olaudah Equiano | was sold into slavery when he was about 11 |
| cash crop | agricultural products grown to be sold for profits, not for personal use |
| slave codes | laws passed in the colonies to control slaves |
| apprentices | young boys who learned skilled trades |
| staple crops | food consume |
| Eliza Lucas Pinckney | introduced indigo to the colony after she learned how to grow it in her family's own plantation |
| Revivals | emotional gatherings where people came together to hear sermon's and declare their faith |
| Great Awakening | changed not only colonial religion but also social and political life |
| Jonathan Edwards | a well known preacher during the great awakening |
| George Whitefield | a pastor who drew thousnads of people to his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans |
| gilbert tennent | was a leader of the new movement |
| scientific method | observation of and experimentation with natural events in order to form theories that could predict other events in behavior |
| scientific revolution | period of great learning that began in the 1600's |
| Galileo Galilei | was one of the leading figures in the scientific revolution |
| Isaac Newton | scientific method today was developed by him |
| Enlightenment | age of reason |
| benjamin Banneker | surveyor, astronomer,first clock maker |
| Phillis wheatley | used religious language and imagery in her poetry |
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JaCoby Guidry
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