Vocab Review

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Persecute

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to treat people cruelly or unfairly

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Puritan

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a person who believed that the Church of England needed to be "purified"

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English Parliament

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the original law-making branch of the English government that has House of Lords and Commons

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Monarchy

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a government led by a king and queen

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civil war

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a war between people who live in the same country

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republic

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a government in which people elect representatives to rule for them

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"divine right of kings"

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the belief that kings and queens have a God-given right to rule and that revellion against them is a sin

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coronation

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the ceremony of crowning a ruler

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aristocrat

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a person of the noble class whose status is inherited

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disband

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eng a group or an organization; dissolve