| A | B |
|---|
| democratic | Ruled by the people. |
| Parliament | Lawmaking body of England. |
| English Bill of Rights | This act said that the power to make laws and impose taxes belonged to the people's elected representatives in Parliament and to no one else. |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement that described the way the Pilgrims would govern themselves. |
| charter | A formal document that outlined the colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed. |
| general assembly | Colonists elected this group of people to make laws for the colony. |
| Great Awakening | A spiritual renewal that swept across the American colonies that taught Americans they could be bold when confronting religious authority. |
| Massachusetts | Pilgrims settled here and limited religious freedom to themselves. |
| Rhode Island | Welcomed different religious, but also became one of the largest slave-trading centers in the world. |
| Connecticut | This colony guranteed the right to vote to all men who were members of the Puritan church. |
| New York | This colony demanded that its Duke grant them the right to elect an assembly to make laws, to worship as they pleased, and the right to trial by jury. |
| Pennsylvania | This colony was the first true democracy in America. |
| Maryland | Passed America's first law guaranteeing religious liberty, but the law did not apply to Atheists and Jews. |
| Virginia | This colony's general assembly (House of Burgess) passed a law making African workers slvaes for life. |
| Georgia | This colony's settlers protested against laws that prohibited alcohol and the owning of slaves. |
