Vocabulary - Revolutionary War

The first document to limit the King's Power

• Parliament

• Magna Carta

• Natural Rights

• Resentment

Important or influential

• famous

• loyalist

• torie

• prominent

Britain's representative government that makes laws

• House of Burgesses

• Congress

• Parliament

• the British Assembly

Leaders are chosen by the people to make decisions for them

• representative government

• Magna Carta

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

Colonial representative governments

• Congress

• militias

• assemblies

• Parliament

Virginia's representative government

• Parliament

• Congress

• House of Lords

• House of Burgesses

The religious movement in the colonies that promoted equality and questioned authority

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• Magna Carta

• Parliament

The scientific movement that used natural laws to explain society

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• Magna Carta

• Parliament

Rights that people are born with; they include life, liberty, and property

• personal rights

• governmental rights

• state rights

• natural rights

Information that has some truth but is twisted to convince people to think in a certain way

• mass media

• propaganda

• regulations

• Enlightenment