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| Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire |
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| New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland |
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| Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia |
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| original American colony in present-day Virginia |
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| system of Southern agriculture before the Civil War, depending on slave labor |
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| early modern European economic philosophy which supports the idea of creating colonies to get their natural resources |
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| people who worked to pay off money |
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| numbers of conditions that controls a person against his/hers will, usually by coercion, usually for securing labor |
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| cross-Atlantic, Africa to New World, most dangerous part of the triangular slave trade |
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| slave trade route among Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
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| early colonists, religious dissenters who settle in Massachusetts |
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| religious freedom seekers who settle the North America Atlantic coast |
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| dissenting Protestant group, colony of Pennsylvania |
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| those Christians who claim to be in possession of a historical and continuous tradition of faith and practice, as opposed to Protestants |
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| those who oppose the view of the dominant church, such as the Pilgrims and Quakers |
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| early-American (1676) rebellion against British authority in Jamestown over economics and policy towards American Indians |
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| New England tradition where citizens vote on local issues, majority carries |
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| colonies funded by investors |
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| colonies for which the king gave land to one or a few people to oversee |
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| colony with a king-granted charter |
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| autonomous colonies, political authority over self |
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| 1215 agreement between kings and nobles, reducing royal power |
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| law from custom, tradition, and judicial decisions |
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| social contract of the Pilgrims |
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| First legislature in the New World |
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| philosophical idea that people consent to be part of a state and covered by its laws |
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| rights that people have simply by virtue of being people |
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| welfare of society and people as a whole |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| Meeting of colonial delegates in 1774 to oppose the Intolerable Acts |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| meeting in 1775 that established a colonial army and declared independence |
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| Fundamental orders of Connecticut |
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| first written constitution in America, setting up towns for Connecticut |
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| document that recognized a number of natural rights |
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| political philosophy that says government should have only restricted powers |
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| Form of government that places political authority in the hands of the people, stresses the rule of law, and governs through elected representatives |
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| war from 1756 to 1763 between France and Great Britain for supremacy in North America |
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| British statement that the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| British 1760s law requiring colonists to supply the basic needs of British soldiers |
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| British law placing a tax on printed colonial mater |
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| British act of Parliament declaring its right to tax and legislate over the colonies, 1766 |
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| colonial group that opposed the Stamp Act and advocated independence |
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| violent confrontation between British troops and colonists, 1770 |
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| “shot heard around the world” |
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| the first shot fired at Lexington between American militia and British troops, often taken as the beginning of the Revolutionary War |
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| protest by the Sons of Liberty against the British, 1773 |
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| Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) |
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| British laws in response to the Boston Tea Party |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| document from 1776 explaining why the American colonies were separating from Great Britain |
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| influential 1776 pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, that called for independence from Great Britain |
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| Seventeenth century British laws requiring that American goods be exported in British ships |
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| laws that provided for the surveying and selling of what were then America’s western lands |
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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| laws passed by Congress in 1785 and 1787 organizing the Northwest Territory for settlement and statehood |
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| treaty that ended the revolutionary war |
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| early (1787) rebellion by farmers against which President George Washington used federal power and troops |
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| supported 3 branches of government and the idea that large states have more sway than small states |
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| supported 3 branches of government and the idea that all states are equal |
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| compromise that created 2 houses in Congress, put together Virginia plan and New Jersey Plan |
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| The Three-Fifth Compromise |
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| 3 slaves equal 5 free people when it comes to taxes and voting |
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| The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise |
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| constitutional compromise that permitted Congress to regulate trade and allowed the slave trade to continue at least another twenty years |
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| body that elects the president and vice president of the United States |
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| faction that supported a strong national government, led by Alexander Hamilton |
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| late-eighteenth century Americans who opposed the Federalist Party |
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| approach to the Constitutional interpretation that says the Constitution has more than enumerated powers |
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| position that the constitution has only the powers expressly listed in it |
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| sharing of power between a central government and states |
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| political philosophy that supports a republic as the proper form of government |
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| early-American term for political parties |
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| belief that society should not have any central government |
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| view that political authority rests with scripture or God |
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| political rule by a few families, elite few |
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| rule by a king or queen along with legislative body, such as a parliament |
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| unconditional rule by a king or queen |
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| rule by a dictatorship that controls the daily lives of citizens |
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| A government in which political power is exercised by a single individual whose rule is considered illegitimate |
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| small, rich, and privileged class, often nobility with a strong voice in government |
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| political philosophy that places political authority with the people, who makes the laws and elect the government |
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| first ten amendments of the Constitution, emphasizing individual liberties |
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| expression(speech & press), assembly, petition, religion; First Amendment |
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| “well regulated militia”; Second Amendment |
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| no soldier will be quartered in times of peace without consent of owner; Third Amendment |
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| no search with out a warrant, no warrant without a decent reason; Fourth Amendment |
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| government cannot seize property without paying for it; Fifth Amendment |
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| cannot be deprived of life, liberty, property without due process of law; Fifth Amendment |
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| cannot be charged more than once with the same crime; Fifth Amendment |
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| cannot be forced to testify against self; Fifth Amendment |
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| speedy and public trial, impartial jury of the state and district, witnesses, lawyer; Sixth Amendment |
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| right of any accused of crime, Sixth Amendment |
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| right of any accused of crime, Sixth Amendment |
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| fines cannot be excessive, punishments cannot be cruel or unusual or both, Eighth Amendment |
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| have rights not specifically named in Constitution |
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| have rights not specifically named in Constitution |
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| German-born American printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City, fought for freedom of press (charges against Governor William Cosby of the New York Colony, 1735) |
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