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| Columbian Exchange | explorers carried plants,animals and disease to "New World" and took new plants and animals back to "Old World" |
| Protestant Reformation | religious movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500's |
| Printing Press | Invention: allowed for ideas to spread around the world because it was easier to communicate |
| French, English, Dutch, and Swedes | These countries had colonies in North America |
| Jamestown, 1607 | The first English perminent settlement in North America |
| Joint Stock Company | Where a group of people share the cost and risk of starting a colony |
| Mayflower Compact | agreement signed in 1620 by Plymouth Pilgrim, 1st example of self government |
| Primary Source | An actual artifact (ex: Pottery, weapon, letter, newpaper, household item, journal.. from a time period |
| Secondary Source | A description of a time period, or second hand information, such as History Book, articles written about an event... second hand hense secondary source. |
| Magna Carta | Signed in 1215, First document to limit power of King and guarenteed a trial by jury |
| Merchantilism | economic system where mother country increases its wealth, power by requiring colonies to provide raw materials and limiting the colonies trade. |
| Representative Government | a system of government, which voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
| House of Burgesses | first representative assembly in the new world, it was an example of a bicameral legislature |
| A Republic | a nation in which voters choose representatives to govern them |
| Free Enterprise System | freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation |
| English Bill of Rights | protects rights of English citizens became the bases of the "American Bill of Rights" |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | document wirtten in 1639 by Puritans that expand the idea of representative government |
| Tarriff | TAX on goods brought into the country |
| Tyranny | Cruel and unjust government |
| Civil Disobedience | refusal to obey a government law, passive resistance because of one's moral beliefs |
| Gettyberg Address | speech that dedicated a cemetary |
