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| democracy | system of government where the people have the power through voting |
| natural rights | rights your born with; life, liberty and property according to John Locke or pursuit of happiness according to Thomas Jefferson |
| social contract | agreement between the people (governed) and the government; people give the government power to protect their natural rights |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement by the Pilgrims settling in Massachusetts that they would determine their laws and follow them as a group; an example of early self- government in America |
| House of Burgesses | law-making body elected by the settlers in Virginia; example of early self government in the colonies |
| mercantilism | economic system where a mother country sets up colonies to benefit itself through trade |
| salutary neglect | leaving alone; the attitude of the British toward the American colonies prior to the French & Inidan War |
| parliament | British law-making body that shared power with the monarch |
| Navigation Acts | British trade laws that governed what the American colonies could trade, who they trade with, and taxes they have to pay on traded goods |
| middle passage | the trans-Atlantic passage for slaves |
| commerce | trade |
| French & Indian War | conflict between the British (& their colonies & Indian allies) and the French (& their Indian allies) over the Ohio River Valley |
| Albany Plan of Union | proposal by Ben Franklin that the 13 colonies work together to help the British in the French & Indian War...but the colonies were unwilling to unite |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Line drawn along the Appalachian Mts. by the British that limited colonial settlement ot the East as they did not want conflict with the Native Americans |
| Common Sense | Patriot writing by Thomas Paine convincing colonists that breaking away fronm the British was necessary |
| taxation without representation | a Patriot reason for revolution; having laws placed on you, when you have no vote over them (no seat in Parliament) |
| Declaration of Indepencence | document that officially broke American colonial ties with Great Britain |
| John Peter Zenger | Colonial newspaper man who showed colonists had freedom of the press by winning his court case |
| loyalists | colonists that wanted to stay loyal to Great Britain |
| patriots | colonists that wanted to revolt and break free from Great Britain |
| Samuel Adams | famous radical Son of Liberty - a patriot |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Treaty that ended the American Revolution and created the U.S from Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River |
| Enlightenment | time period in Europe that heavily influenced the ideas and founding of the US |
