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King William & Queen Mary

Monarchs who signed the English Bill of Rights

John Peter Zenger

wrote about honest things about the government ( New York Weekly Journal)

Philis Wheatley

First African poet

Ben Franklin

Inventor who electricity and wrote the Almanac

Montesquieu

separated the government into three different branches

John Locke

challenged divine rights

Anne Bradstreet

a famous poet

John Smith `

helped develop colonies in Virginia

Slavery

started with the Dutch and it started because Americans and English didn't have enough workers

education

Puritans don't need it and Public needed it



Great Awakening

Christian churches changing so it doesn't get corrupted by kings

legislature

group of people with the power to make laws

Bill of Rights

list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

Magna Carter

first document to place restrictions on an English rulers power

Habeas- Corpus

the principle that a person can not be held in a prison without being charged a specific crime

freedom of press

the right of journalists to publish the truth without penalty ( John Peter Z. ) `

liable

publishing of statements that damage a persons reputation

Parliament

government body who's original purpose to keep the kings power in check

extended family

cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles

gentry

upper class of colonial society

middle class

small planters, independent farmers, artisan ( worker in skilled trade)

indentured servants

works for 4 -10 yrs

Tri angular trade

3 way trade between the colonies, the island of the Caribbean and Africa

slave code

strict laws that restricted the activities of slaves

natural rights

rights that belonged to people at birth

divine right

the belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from god

separation of powers

division of the power of government into separate branches

horn book

paddle shaped board with a lesson on it