U.S. History test Thursday
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| 488463532 | Privy Council | Group of royal advisers that set English Policies | |
| 488463533 | Parliament | England's National Legislature | |
| 488463534 | Bicameral Legislature | lawmaking body made up of two houses | |
| 488463535 | House of Burgesses | elected by colonists to represent Virginia's plantation and towns | |
| 488463536 | town meeting | center of New England politics | |
| 488463537 | John Peter Zenger | criticized a government and believed in freedom in the press | |
| 488463538 | Libel | false statement (usually published) that damages a person's reputation | |
| 488463539 | Dominion of New England | one government that included Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island | |
| 488463540 | Sir Edmund Andros | royal governor of the Dominion | |
| 488463541 | Glorious Revolution | a revolt in England against Catholic King James II that led to his overthrow and put Protestants Mary and William of Orange on the throne. | |
| 488463542 | English Bill of Rights | Powers of the English monarchy were reduced, and the Parliament gained power. | |
| 488463543 | mercantilism | Economic System nations created and maintained wealth by carefully controlling trade | |
| 488463544 | Balance of Trade | fewer imports that exports | |
| 488463545 | imports | goods bought from other countries | |
| 488463546 | Exports | goods sold to other countries | |
| 488463547 | Navigation Acts | required colonists to do the bulk of their trading with England | |
| 488463548 | duties | import taxes on some trade products | |
| 488463549 | free enterprise | economic competition with little government control | |
| 488463550 | triangular trade | several trading routes all across the Atlantic Ocean | |
| 488463551 | Middle Passage | slave trade that brought 10 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean | |
| 488463552 | Olaudah Equiano | sold into slavery at age 11; after gaining freedom, he spoke out against slavery and published his autobiography | |
| 488463553 | cash crops | crops grown for a profit | |
| 488463554 | slave codes | laws to control slaves | |
| 488463555 | apprentices | young boys who learned skilled trades | |
| 488463556 | staple crops | crops that were always needed | |
| 488463557 | revivals | emotional gatherings where sermons were given and people declared their faith | |
| 488463558 | Great Awakening | Christian movement that emphasized faith in God that changed colonial religion | |
| 488463559 | Jonathan Edwards | pastor that gave dramatic sermons and urged sinners to seek forgiveness | |
| 488463560 | George Whitefield | popular ministers of the Great Awakening | |
| 488463561 | Glibert Tennent | Presbyterian minister who also led the Great Awakening | |
| 488463562 | Scientific Revolution | new way of thinking about the natural world | |
| 488463563 | Galileo Galilei | realized planets revolve around the Sun | |
| 488463564 | Sir Isaac Newton | explained how objects on Earth and in the sky behaved | |
| 488463565 | scientific method | a series of steps that scientists use to answer questions and solve problems | |
| 488463566 | enlightenment | studied human nature and suggested ways to improve their world | |
| 488463567 | David Rittenhouse | American Philosophical Society's second president that designed mathematical and astronomical instruments | |
| 488463568 | Benjamin Banneker | free African American who predicated a solar eclipse | |
| 488463569 | Benjamin Franklin | An American diplomat, writer, and inventor. He helped the writing of the Declaration as well as securing French aid. | |
| 488463570 | Anne Bradstreet | poet who wrote about family and faith | |
| 488463571 | Phillis Wheatley | used religious language and imagery in her poems |
