| A | B |
|---|
| French & Indian War | Britain beats France for control of North America (1755) |
| Indentured Servant | A worker who is transported to a colony in excange for 7 years of labor |
| Triangualr Trade | Three legged journey of a sea vessel that connected trade between America, Europe, and Africa |
| Middle Passage | portion of Triangular Trade that transported slaves to the New World |
| Republic | A government that uses representative democracy |
| Enlightenment | 1600's; When science, logic and reason replaced faith as motivator for decision making |
| Natural Rights | Life, Libert, and property (Locke) and Pursuit of happiness (Jefferson) |
| Charter | Kings official permission to start a colony |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia's legislature (1st in America) |
| Albany Plan of Union | Ben Franklin's idea of uniting the colonies against the French & Indians |
| Salutary Neglect | Period of colonial history where colonies were left to self-govern. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | To stop Indian fights in colonies, this law stopped colonists from crossing the Appalachain mtns. |
| Mercantilism | Profiting by Mother country from a colony (Raw materials + Markets) |
| Stamp Act | DIRECT TAX applied on colonies by Britain |
| 1st Continental Congress | Wrote Olive Branch Petition; authorized colonies to raise militia and stockpile weapons |
| 2nd Continental Congress | Fought Rev War; Wrote Articles of Confederation |
| Declaration of Independence | Document separating American colonies from Britain |
| Articles of Confederation | First US government |
| John Locke | Natural Rights; Social Contract Theory |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Separation of Powers |
