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| Great Awakening | a religious movement that encouraged ideas of equality and the right to challenge authority. |
| Enlightenment | intellectual movement that emphasized reason and science as the path to knowledge. |
| Benjamin Franklin | American enlightenment figure(person). |
| John Locke | English philosopher that argued people have natural rights. |
| Natural Rights | rights to life, liberty and property. |
| Magna Carta | English document that guaranteed important rights to noblemen and freemen.Limited the power of the King. |
| 1215 | Magna Carta was written. |
| Magna Carta rights | No property seized, not taxed, not be placed on trial without witness, only punish by jury. |
| Parliament | England's main lawmaking body. |
| House of Commons | part of Parliament that is elected by the people. |
| House of Lords | part of Parliament made up of nonelected nobles, judges and church officials. |
| Glorious Revolution | overthrow of King James to change the leadership in England. (Parliament not happy with King). |
| salutary neglect | hands off policy that England had with concern in the colonies during the first half of the 1700's (18th century). |
| Zenger Trial | John Peter Z. on trial for printing critiscm of NY governor. Won the right to speak the truth. |
| French and Indian War | decide which nation would control the northern and eastern parts of North America. |
| Albany Plan of Union | Ben Franklin's proposal to unite the colonies to fight against the French in the French and Indian War. |
| Battle of Quebec | turning point of the French and Indian War. |
| Treaty of Paris | ended the Seven Year's War - and Britain claimed all of North America east of Mississippi River. |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | a revolt by the Native Americans against the British forts west of the Applachian Mountains. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbade colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Mts. ($$$ to defend) Colonist angry. |
| English Bill of Rights | agreement to respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament. |
| English Bill of Rights | Established that the government was to be based on laws made by Parliament, not the desires of the ruler. |
| Rights of the English Bill | free elections and meetings, No excessive fines or punishments, people could complain about King/Queen without being arrested, Couldn't cancel laws or impose taxes without permission. |
