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Colonial A-Day 7-8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Iroquois Confederacy | formed in 1570, and made up of first five and then six Iroquis nations located in central and western New York |
| Indentured Servants | people who contracted to work as many as seven years to repay the cost of their passage to the new world |
| Triangular Trade | Trans-Atlantic trade between Europe, Africa and North America. |
| Middle Passage | the voyage from Africa to the new world |
| Democracy | A government by the people |
| Republic | voters elect representatives who speak and act for other citizens in the business of government. |
| Magna Carta | A document that restricted the kings power |
| Writ of Habeas Corpus | the right to be brought before a judge and jury |
| Parliament | Legislative body of the British Government |
| Representative Government | Indirectly or directly chosen representatives speak for the people |
| Rule of Law | Restriction of abritary exercise of power |
| Natural Rights | Rights everyone is born with,them being life, liberity and property |
| Enlightenment | An intellectual movement that held reliance on reason and experience would lead to social progress |
| Social Contract | People agree to form a state and grant to its government the powers necessary to protect their natural rights |
| Charter | A written graunt by a country's legislative, or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, college, or city is created and its rights and privleges defined. |
| Mayflower Compact | Pilgrams signed this contract in which colonists consented to be governed. |
| Salutary Neglect | Manner in which England governed the American colonies in the late 1600s and early 1700s, marked by weak enforcement of laws regulating colonial trade. |
| Mercantilism | economic system based on a favorable balance of trade |
| Articles of Confederation | the first American Constitution |
| Marbury v. Madison | established the courts most significant right- that of judicial review |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | landmark decision in which the supreme court of the U.S. held the power to regulate interstate commerce expanded the powers of the national government in the area of commerce through a broad interpretation of the congressional power to regulate interstate |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | 1819, upheld the creation of a national bank. strengthened federal supremacy over state law, the use of elastic clause and national economic interests |
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