Question 1

English Bill of Rights

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made Parliament more powerful than the king; English government would be based on laws made by Parliament, not the desires of the king

Question 2

John Locke

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English Enlightenment philosopher who argued that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property

Question 3

Jonathan Edwards

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Great Awakening preacher; terrified listeners with images of God's anger and need for salvation

Question 4

John Peter Zenger

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his trial helped establish freedom of the press in the colonies (and later 1st Amendment)

Question 5

Parliament

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England's law-making assembly made of House of Lords (birth) and House of Commons (elected)

Question 6

Triangular Trade

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trade route with one ship making three stops

Question 7

Magna Carta

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1st English document to limit the power of the king; ensured the king could not seize a noble's property and guaranteed nobles trial by jury

Question 8

Navigation Acts

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laws passed by Parliament to ensure England was profiting from colonial trade; colonial merchants smuggled to avoid laws

Question 9

Middle Passage

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Transatlantic voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas; Middle leg of Triangular Trade; conditions were horrible and many died during the journey

Question 10

Enlightenment

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movement that emphasized reason and science to obtain knowledge; influenced colonists to question government authority

Question 11

Representative Government

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Government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws.

Question 12

Divine Right of Kings

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Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.

Question 13

Salutary Neglect

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English policy of not enforcing laws in its colonies; as a result, colonists got used to governing themselves

Question 14

Great Awakening

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religious movement that swept through the colonies; encouraged ideas of equality and the right to question authority

Question 15

trial by jury

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guilt or innocence decided by a group of peers; guaranteed to nobles in Magna Carta

Question 16

smuggling

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illegally importing and/or exporting goods

Question 17

French and Indian War

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fought between French and British over land and fur trade in the Ohio River Valley

Question 18

George Washington

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his failed attack on a French fort in the Ohio River Valley began the French and Indian War

Question 19

Albany Plan of Union

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written by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies against the French; colonial leaders reject the plan

Question 20

Treaty of Paris 1763

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officially ended the French and Indian War

Question 21

Pontiac's Rebellion

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attacks on British forts by Native Americans opposed to British expansion into Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War

Question 22

Proclamation of 1763

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banned colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains; angers colonists who had fought to gain that land.

Question 23

"Join or Die"

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slogan created by Benjamin Franklin for his political cartoon in support of the Albany Plan of Union

Question 24

debt

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financial status of British following French and Indian War which causes them to begin enforcing laws and economic measures in the colonies

Question 25

Mississippi River

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became the boundary between British and Spanish claims in North America after the French and Indian War; Britain gained all land EAST of this river and Spain gained all land WEST of it

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