Word | Definition |
Mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
Magna Carta | a document that protected nobles' privaleges and upheld authority |
Paliament | the British legislature |
Common Law | a system of law based on precedent and customs |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Mayflower Compact | a written planof rules to govern the new land |
Limited Government | gov't is not all powerful-it may do only those things that people have given it the power to do |
Republic | any representative gov't headed by a president or similar leader |
Stamp Act | required colonists to attach expensive stamps toall newspapers and legal documents |
Declaration of Independence | signed on July 4, 1776 declared independence |
Navigation Acts | English trade laws during the 1600 and 1700 |
Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine urging independence |
Albany Plan | Ben Franklin wanted the colonies to work together as a union |
John Peter Zenger | Publisher whose trial let to freedom of the press |
Salutary Neglect | Britain did not enforce the navigation acts |
Triangular Slave Route | the pattern of how slaves were traded for product |
Middle Passage | Route slaves were taken on |
Favorable Balance of Trade | always want to sell more than you buy |
Proprietary Colonies | colonies governed by one or more people with full governing rights |
House of Burgesses | Assembley of representatives in colonial VA |
Social Contract Theory | belief that a persons moral obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement between them and society |
English Bill of Rights | act declaring rights of a subject and succession of the crown |
Writs of Assistance | British soldiers did not need a search warrant to go through colonists houses |
Proclomation of 1763 | No more settlers in Indian Territory allowed |
Sons of liberty | Secret gathering of people who opposed the stamp act |
Nationalism | Devotion and loyalty to own country |