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| democracy | rule by the people; a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
| direct democracy | a form of governemnt in which the people vote firsthand |
| town meetings | example of direct democracy |
| representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| republic | n repregovernment based representative democracy; form of representative democracy found in the U.S. |
| natural rights | a freedom people possess relating to life, liberty, and property |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in North America |
| compact | written agreement |
| Mayflower Compact | agreement signed by the Pilgrims which established a direct democracy in colonial America |
| indentured servants | workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for his or her labor |
| dissenter | one who opposes official or commonly held views |
| economy | system for making choices about the way to use scarce resources to make and distribute goods and services to fulfill people's needs and wants |
| cash crop | crop produced mainly for sale |
| plantation | large estate |
| liberty | personal freedom |
| proclamation | an official, formal public announcement |
| authority | the power to make others obey |
| boycott | refuse to purchase certain goods or services |
| repeal | to cancel a law |
| duty | tax on imported goods |
| smuggling | act of importing or exporting secretly, in violation of law and especially without paying taxes on goods |
| writs of assistance | allowed British to use search warrants to see if colonists had goods that not have an export tax |
| every person has worth | belief found in the Jewish faith that is a basic principle of democracy |
| Athens | Greek City-state where the world's first democracy was created |
| Romans | group of people who created the world's first Republic |
| veto | Roman term for "I forbid" |
| Great Charter | translation of Magna Carta. |
| legislature | law making body |
| Englightenment | name of time period in Europe when there was a cultural movement center around new ideas in government |
| God-given rights such as life, liberty, own property | John Locke's idea of natural rights |
| legislative, executive, judicial | 3 branches of the U.S. govt. |
| House of Burgesses | name of the 1st legislative body in colonial America c |
| colony | area of settlement in one place that is controlled by a country in another place |
| govt. should be divided into 3 branches | idea the U.S. got from Montesquieu about the govt. |
| Romans and Greeks | 2 ancient democracies that helped shape the govt. we have today |
| Jamestown had representative democracy and Plymouth had direct democracy | how lawmaking at Jamestown differed from Plymouth |
| Great Awakening | religious movement that questioned the traditional religous authority of the church |
| Native Americans | The French joined forces with this group of people in an effort to drive the British colonists west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| taxes | how the British tried to pay their debt from the French and Indian War |
| Stamp Act | act that required colonists to place stamps on documents, legal papers, and newspapers |
| wanted more land | reason the colonists were angry about the Proclamation of 1763 |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists response to Tea Act |
| Coercive Acts | Great Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party |
| Intolerable Acts | name the colonists gave to the Coercive Acts |
| Lexington and Concord | towns where the first clashes occured between the colonial militia men and Great Britain |
| Common Sense | name of Thomas Paine's pamphlet that called for the colonists to rebel against the King |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence |
| July 4, 1776 | date of the Declaration of Indpendence |
| Massachusetts | Where the Puritans(Pilgrams) first colonized in America |
| Rhode Island and Connecticut | two colonies formed by people the Puritans expelled from Mass. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | name of the first state Constituion in the colonies |
| New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies | 3 geographic regions formed in the colonies |
| Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island | 4 colonies in New England. |
| New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware | 4 colonies in the Middle Colonies |
| Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia | 5 colonies in the Southern Colonies |
