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C&E dictionary
By: Shawn
C&E project
Goal 1
Foundations of the United states
political system
New England Colonies
Def: The northern colonies.
Ex: Rhode island
Middle Colonies
Def: Colonies that are located at the middle
of colonial America.
Ex: New York
Southern colonies
Def: Colonies at the bottom or southern
end.
Ex: North Carolina
Proprietary Colonies
Def: Founded by people that got land from
the king.
Ex: North Carolina
Jamestown
Def: was the first successful colony of the
new world.
Is a joint stock colony as well.
Puritans
Def: wanted a community based on pure
biblical teachings.
Quakers
Def: religious group that did not recognize
class differences and promoted equality of
the sexes.
Bacons rebellion
Def: was a Virginia planter that rallied forces
to fight the native Americans/
Believed that the native
Americans were a threat to
Colonial society.
Salam witch trials
Def: attempt to protect the puritan church
many of the puritans accused many young
women and condemned them to death.
One of the darkest times
In colonial history.
Manga Carta
Def: grants nobles of Britain ability to
certain legal rights.
The English version of
Constitution.
Common law
Def: law based on past court decisions.
John Locke
Def: built on an idea that monarchs that
posses god like power over others is the
past not the present and is trying to stress
change.
Town meetings
Def: first form of representative democracy
Boston massacre
Def: was a brutal slaying of civilians in
Boston.
Which inevitably was one of
the reasons why we went
to war with Britain.
Shot heard round the world
Def: was the first shot fired in the
revolutionary war at Lexington and
concord.
No one knows who fired the
first bullet at Lexington and
Concord.
Goal 2
The government of the United
States of America