Al D Flashcards
What is the magna Carta?
it is a document signed by the king to limit his power
What is Parliament?
A great Council that advised and consented the king
What is the English Bill of rights?
It was a list of privelages and freedoms for the citizens
What was the John Peter Zenger trial?
It was a trial when Peter Zenger wrote something nasty but true letter about the prime minister and in court he was found not guilty
what is a bill of rights?
limits the power of the goverment
what is libel?
A section in writing that
What is the English Bill of rights
When King William and Queen
Mary signed a document that promised they would protect the peoples freedom
What is the Glorious Revolution
When King James II was thrown from the throne
Purpose of the Navigation Acts
The purpose was to regulate the trade of the empire and so it could enable the Mother Country to derive a profit from their colonies
What is Gentry
It is the class in the UK that is below nobility
What is a legislature
A legislature has two houses that have the power to make laws
What is an apprentice
A person who is in learning behind the current job and who will eventually take over that job
What is an Indentured servant
An Indentured Servant was usually came over to payoff their debt so
they had to serve people before they could live their new life
Racism
Is a belief that humans are divided into different racis
Slave Codes
Strict laws that restricted slave activity
Who is Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is founding Father of the United States and also an inventor, scientist, and writer
What is the Great Awakening
It is a religious Revival in America
What was the Enlightment
It was a movement that was supposed to reform society and challenge new ideas
Divine Rights
It is the theory that the king gets the power from god to rule
Natural Rights
These were rights in which the people got power from God to chose who ruled them
John Locke
Came up with the idea with divine and natural rights
Baron De Montesquieu
A French Thinker that believed the government should be seperated into different branches
Seperation of power
The three different branches of power the branches are Judicial Executive and the Legislative branch
what is the executive branch
This is the branch that carries out the laws
what is the legislative branch
The branch that has the power of legislating and making laws
Why was it important to own land in colonial America
It was important to own land because then you could payoff your taxes and it also decided your social class and sometimes could allow to try for a spot in the government
What was Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect is when the king leaves a colony alone the looniest liked it because they could set up their own government and they became rich England ended it because we were becoming as rich as England
