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Road to Revaoluton
Social Studies
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gentry | the highest social class of the American Colonies |
| Social Mobility | the possibility of a person to move from one social class to another (by earning money) |
| Revival | a period of religios awakening |
| Enlightment | a period that emphasized science and reason as guides to see the world more clearly |
| Iroquois League | a poweful Native American confederation (tribe) |
| Aglican Church | the church of England |
| Apprentice | a person who works for another without pay, in return for instruction in skill and trade |
| Bill of Rights | a list of essantial freedoms guaranteed to all citizens |
| Boston Massacre | a small riot in 1770 between the British troops and the colonists |
| Boycott | a refusal to buy goods or services, used as a means of protest |
| Cash Crop | a crop that is grown to be sold |
| Charter | A legal paper granted by a monarch giving certin rights to the colonists |
| Colony | a settlement ruled by a distant parent country |
| Commerce | the buying and selling of goods |
| Culture | a people's way of life |
| Democracy | a systom of government by the people |
| Economy | the way a society makes and spends money |
| Great Awakaning | a religios movement in which traveling ministers emphasized personal religious experience |
| House of Burgesses | a lawmaking body in colonial Virginia |
| Indentured Servents | a person who exchanged work for passage from England to America |
| Indigo | a plant used to make blue dye |
| Magna Carta | a charter limiting the English monarch's power by extending certain rights to the citezens |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement signed by Pilgrim leaders providing for local government in America |
| Middle Passage | trip across the Atlantic from Africa to America with enslaves Africand as the main cargo |
| Monarch | a King or Queen who rules a coutry |
| Parliment | a lawmaking body of Englind |
| Patriots | colonists who resisted British politics in America |
| Rights | powers and priviliges that belong to all citizens |
| John Locke | believed the purpose of the government was to protect people's natural rights |
| Benjamin Franklin | Philadelphia printer, writer, diplomat, and inventer |
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