Unit One

4. / refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England
6. / a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
7. / The division of the land into smaller units under private ownership
11. / armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
12. / stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
13. / belief in the benefits of profitable trading
14. / reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company

1. / he first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
2. / widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas
3. / carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonies
5. / An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786.
8. / millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
9. / a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
10. / three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water.