US History Vocab

3. system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
6. the colonists of the Thirteen Colonies.
8. a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
9. form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body.
14. an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
16. attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America.
17. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
18. A theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

1. a group of English people who came to America seeking religious freedom during the reign of King James I.
2. Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
4. a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede.
5. one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"
7. an American colonist who supported the British side during the American Revolution.
10. American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the first American flag.
11. English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices
12. included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.
13. required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
15. an act regulating stamp duty.