| A | B |
|---|
| Magna Carta | 1215 document that was first step for English rights |
| to elect representatives to government | most important English right |
| Parliament | England's chief law-making body |
| House of Commons | house of Parliament elected by the people |
| House of Lords | house of Parliament of nonelected nobles |
| Virginia's House of Burgesses | an example of a colonial assembly |
| a representative | the colonies did not have this in Parliament |
| King James II | combined the Northern Colonies and appointed Edmund Andros as royal governor |
| Edmund Andros | he ended representative assemblies in New England |
| Increase Mather | sent to England to plead the colonists' case with King James |
| Glorious Revolution | England's change in leadership from King James to Willilam and Mary |
| English Bill of Rights | document that gave the right to complain to the King or Queen without fear |
| salutary neglect | England's "hands-off" policy in which they interfered very little in the colonies in the early 1700s |
| royal governor | appointed by the king or queen and had final approval on colonial laws |
| council | appointed by the governor and served as highest court in each colony |
| colonial assembly | elected by colonists and made laws and taxes |
| John Peter Zenger | publisher who stood trial for printing criticism of New York's governor |
| freedom of the press | the right colonists gained from the Zenger trial |
