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| Question | Answer |
| Magna Carta | Promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. |
| Glorious Revolution | The events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs |
| Parliament | The legislature of certain British colonies and possessions |
| English Bill of Rights | An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown |
| Bicameral | Having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body |
| House of Burgesses | The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America |
| Mayflower Compact | The first governing document of Plymouth Colony |
| Salutary Neglect | A long-standing British Policy in the 13 colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade |
| French Indian War | The beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Provided that all lands west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists |
| Mercantilism | An economic theory and practice, dominant in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers |
| Boston Massacre | An incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others |
| "No taxation without representation" | A slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution |
| Boston Tea Party | A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773 |
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