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Vocabulary up through the bill of rights
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12/15/2011

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parliament
Definition
british lawmaking body of government
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congress
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american lawmaking body of government
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colony
Definition
a small settlement made up of people from a different area;ruled by another country
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declaration of independence
Definition
document that declared us free from english rule
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tobacco
Definition
product that saved jamestown;popular in europe
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boycott
Definition
refusal to buy a good
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committees of correspondence
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colonists wrote letters to other colonies informing them of happenings
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proprietary colony
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colony owned by a single owner
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royal colony
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colony owned by a king
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great migration
Definition
the large movement of puritans to the new world
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magna carta
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document stating all english citizens would not be taxed without their consent
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minutemen
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soldiers ready to fight in a minute's notice
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stamp act
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colonists forced to place a stamp on all legal documents
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proclamation of 1763
Definition
act that forbade colonists to move west of the appalachian mountains
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intolerable acts
Definition
four acts that britain placed on the colonists after the boston tea party
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tea act
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taxe placed on tea; gave sole right to sell tea to the british east india tea
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boston tea party
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colonists threw tea overboard as a sign of protest
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boston massacre
Definition
5 colonists were killed in a riot in boston
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first continental congress
Definition
banned trade with england
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second continental congress
Definition
formed continental army & started printing money
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mayflower compact
Definition
set up rules & regulations of plymouth colony
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indentured servant
Definition
someone who cannot afford a passage to the new world who then pays back a person by working for them
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charter
Definition
permission to establish a colony
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puritan
Definition
people who wanted to purify the church of england
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sons of liberty
Definition
colonists who protested against british laws
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patriot
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person who supported american colonists during the revolutionary war
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loyalist
Definition
person who supported britain during the revolutionary war; 30% of the population were loyalists at the start of the war
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navigation acts
Definition
a series of laws intended to limit trading in the colonies with only england
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