| A | B |
|---|
| middle colonies | Jews & Huguenots (NY), Quakers(Pa), and Presbyterians(NJ) settled here |
| middle class | middle colonies |
| entrepreneur | business owner |
| southern colonies | social structure based on family status and land ownership |
| Church of England | official church of Virginia |
| Great Awakening | religious movement that laid ideas for revolutionary thought |
| Planters | controlled society and government in southern colonies |
| Middle Passage | Route by which slaves were transported to New World |
| Englightenment | changed the idease of the roles of the people and government |
| Locke | said men are born with natural rights no government can take |
| natural rights | life, liberty, and property |
| social contract | the relationship between the people and the government they created |
| ordered liberty | your rights are protected as long as everyone obeys the laws |
| sovereign | independent |
| Paine | wrote Common Sense |
| common sense | Political pamphlet that explained why colonists should rebel from England |
| Jefferson | Authored the Declaration of Ind. |
| Declaration of Independence | incorporated the ideas of Locke and Paine |
| freedom | legacy of the Declaration of Independence |
| grievance | a complaint |
