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Topic 2 Lesson 2 and
Topic 2 Lesson 2,3,4,5,6,7
Protestant Reformation | movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church that led to the creation of many different Christian Churches |
proprietary colony | an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment |
royal colony | a colony under direct control of the English crown |
representative government | a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws |
Magna Carta | a British document signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights |
Quakers | Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people |
Act of Toleration | a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians |
slave codes | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights |
Mayflower Compact | 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony |
precedent | an act or decision that sets an example for others to follow |
Putitans | a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Great Awakening | a religious movement i the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also know as the First Great Awakening |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | a 1639 plan for government in the Puritan colony of Connecticut |
Enlightenment | the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason |
navigation acts | a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies |
triangular trade | the colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies |
English Bill of Rights | a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens |
legislature | a group of people who have the power to make laws |
mercantilism | the theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more that it bought from other nations |
charter | a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |