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28 Cards in this Set
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King William & Queen Mary |
Monarchs who signed the English Bill of Rights
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John Peter Zenger |
wrote about honest things about the government ( New York Weekly Journal) |
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Philis Wheatley |
First African poet |
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Ben Franklin |
Inventor who electricity and wrote the Almanac |
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Montesquieu |
separated the government into three different branches |
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John Locke |
challenged divine rights |
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Anne Bradstreet |
a famous poet |
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John Smith ` |
helped develop colonies in Virginia |
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Slavery |
started with the Dutch and it started because Americans and English didn't have enough workers |
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education |
Puritans don't need it and Public needed it |
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Great Awakening |
Christian churches changing so it doesn't get corrupted by kings |
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legislature |
group of people with the power to make laws |
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Bill of Rights |
list of freedoms that a government promises to protect |
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Magna Carter |
first document to place restrictions on an English rulers power |
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Habeas- Corpus |
the principle that a person can not be held in a prison without being charged a specific crime |
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freedom of press |
the right of journalists to publish the truth without penalty ( John Peter Z. ) ` |
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liable |
publishing of statements that damage a persons reputation |
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Parliament |
government body who's original purpose to keep the kings power in check |
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extended family |
cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles |
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gentry |
upper class of colonial society |
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middle class |
small planters, independent farmers, artisan ( worker in skilled trade) |
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indentured servants |
works for 4 -10 yrs |
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Tri angular trade |
3 way trade between the colonies, the island of the Caribbean and Africa |
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slave code |
strict laws that restricted the activities of slaves |
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natural rights |
rights that belonged to people at birth |
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divine right
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the belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from god |
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separation of powers |
division of the power of government into separate branches |
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horn book |
paddle shaped board with a lesson on it |