| A | B |
|---|
| Glorious Revolution | Overthrow a King |
| Parliament | English national legislature |
| Town Meetings | gathering to decide important issues |
| Libel | writing something that is not true |
| Navigation Acts | kept colonists from trading only with England |
| Mercantilism | creating wealth by controlling trade |
| Imports | items brought into our country |
| Exports | items sold to another country |
| Smuggler | person who illegally trades goods |
| Duties | payment of taxes |
| Middle Passage | voyage across the Atlantic made by slaves |
| Quakers | first group that protested the slave trade |
| cash crops | sold for profit |
| staple crops | items that are in demand all of the time |
| slave codes | restrict slaves movements |
| apprentices | young boys who learn a skill or a trade |
| free laborers | worked where they wanted too and could change jobs |
| indentured servants | contracted work for a period of time |
| enslaved Africans | worked without pay for life |
| Scientific Revolution | scientists began re-examining laws |
| Poor Richard's Almanack | book by Ben Franklin |
| Enlightmenment | study of human nature and society |
| Scientific Method | examination of natural events |
| Ben Banneker | A.A. astronomer |
| Galileo | scientist who confirmed that the planets go around the sun |
| Sir. Isaac Newton | motion and gravity |
| John Locke | philosopher and equality and liberty |
