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| Individual who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for transportation to the colonies. |
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| Three way pattern of trade that involved England, English colonies in the Americas, and west Africa. |
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| The forced transport of enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas. |
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| 1753-1784, The first African American to publish a book of poem. Captured and sold to John Wheatley, a Boston tailor. |
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| English document from 1215 that limited the power of the king and provided basic rights for citizens. |
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| Legislative body of a country |
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| Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens |
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| Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed |
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| British policy in early 1700s which allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain was gaining economically. |
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| Economic policy under which a nation accumulates wealth by exporting more goods than it imports |
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| British trade laws enacted by Parliament during the mid-1700s that regulated colonial commerce. |
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| Eighteenth-century movement during which European philosophers believed that societys problems could be solved by reason and science. |
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| Proposed the idea of the Albany Plan of Union, he also supported the idea of colonial unity and created the Join, or Die political cartoon. |
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| Religious movement in the English colonies during the 1730s and 1740s, which was heavily inspired by evangelical preachers. |
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| Crops that are steady in demand. |
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| elementary school during colonial times, often operated out of a womans home. |
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| Young ambitious Virginian that led his troops to attack and defeat a small French force. Washington however had to surrender when the French counterattacked. |
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| War fought from 1754 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and its Indian allies, gaining control of eastern North America. |
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| Uprising in 1763 by Indians in the Great Lakes region. |
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| Declaration by the British king ordering all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| Benjamin Franklins 1754 proposal to create one government for the 13 colonies. |
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