CHAPTER 2 AMERICAN CIT
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- magna carta
- english document protected the nobles' rights and upheld their authority.
- bill of rights
- part of a constitution that guarantees certain basic freedoms to a citizen.
- intolerable acts
- laws restricting the colonists' rights, including the right to a trial by jury.
- thomas jefferson
- most of the work of writing the declaration of the independence fell to him.
- stronger national government
- is what george washington and other political leaders argued for.
- parliament
- a lawmaking body in england.
- ratify
- to approve, referring to government laws and documents.
- tea act
- during the boston tea party, where colonists dumped tea into the boston harbor to protest.
- confederation
- a group of individuals who band together for a common purpose.
- compact
- an agreement or contract among a group of people.
- massachusetts
- is where the first battles of the revolutionary war took place.
- monarch
- a king or queen who rules a country.
- english bill of rights
- the document parliament drew up that limited the rights of the king.
- bicameral
- a type of legislature that is divided into two parts, or houses.
- precedent
- in law, a ruling in an earlier case that was similar.
- constitution
- a detailed, written plan for government.
- burgesses
- what 22 men called who were chosen from each country to govern the people of jamestown.
- social contract
- the idea that people agree to give up some of their freedom and abide by the decisions of their government in return for the government's protection.
- colony
- a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.
- articles of confederation
- the first constitution of the united states.
- jamestown
- the first permanent english settlement in north america.
- new hampshire
- first colony to organize as a state and craft a constitution.
- mayflower compact
- written plan for government drawn up by the plymouth colonist
- declaration of independence
- document that explains why the united states should be a free nation.
- mercantilism
- theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.
- delegates
- in government, those chosen to represent the people.