| A | B |
|---|
| Privy Council | Group of royal advisers that set policies in the colonies |
| Parliament | England's law making body |
| bicameral legislature | a lawmaking body made up of 2 houses |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia's law making body, elected by colonists |
| Dominion of New England | united northern colonies under King James |
| Glorious Revolution | The overthrow of King James II in England |
| English Bill of Rights | Guaranteed rights to English citizens after Glorious Revolution |
| mercantilism | System in which a nation exported more than it imported |
| imports | goods bought from other countries |
| exports | goods sold to other countries |
| Navigation Acts | Laws passed to require colonists to buy and sell goods only from England |
| duties | taxes on imported products |
| free enterprise | Companies compete for customers with little government control |
| Triangular trade | Goods traded between the colonies Africa and the west indies |
| Middle Passage | voyage of slave ships from Africa to the Americas |
| cash crops | plants raised to sell for profit |
| slave codes | laws passed to control slaves |
| apprentices | boys who learned skilled trades from master craftsmen |
| staple crops | crops that are always needed |
| Great Awakening | Christian movement in the 1700's that emphasized faith in God |
| Scientific Revolution | Scientists began to understand the basic laws that govern nature in the 1600s |
| Galileo | Demonstrated that planets revolve around the sun. |
| Isaac Newton | Explained how objects on Earth and in the sky behaved. |
| Enlightenment | Age of Reason. Scientists and philosophers used reason and logic to study human nature. |
| Thomas Hooker | Founder of Connecticut |
| Roger Williams | Founder of Rhode Island |
| William Penn | Founder of Pennsylvania |
| Lord Baltimore | Founder of Maryland |
| James Oglethorpe | Georgia |
| place for debtors | Georgia |
| refuge for Catholics | Maryland |
| refuge for Quakers | Pennsylvania |
