Social Studies - Lesson 6 and 7 vocabulary

Gullah

• A combination of English and West African languages

• A combination of Spanish and West African languages

• Single ruler over a country and its people

• System of law based on customs

Sovereign

• A ruler elected by the people of a country

• A high priest that rules the church and country

• Multiple rulers that rule over a country and its people

• A single ruler over a country and its people

Liberty

• Everyone had a right to travel

• A series of laws in the colonies

• To not be as free to make your own decisions.

• To be as free as possible to make your own decisions.

State of Nature

• Blank slate

• A document that guaranteed freedoms and rights to people

• Everyone had a right to everything

• System of law based on customs

John Locke

• Believed that governments should protect people's natural rights

• Believed in a single ruler or sovereign

• Believed government should not exist

• Believed there should be no laws to govern people

Gentry

• An agreement between people and their government

• The highest social class in the English colonies

• The lowest social class in the English colonies

• A single ruler over a country and its ruler

Export

• Trade products produced only for the sovereign

• Trade products sent to markets outside a country

• Trade products brought into a country

• Trade products produced and sold only in the colonies

Tabula Rasa

• blank slate
• clear page
• whiteboard
• empty canvas

The Great Awakening

• 1688 movement that strengthened the rights of English citizens

• A contract that limited power; no one was above the law

• A document that guaranteed freedoms and rights to people

• A religious movement in the 1730s and 1740s

Mercantilism

• A political theory promoting government regulation and control of trade to increase national wealth and power.
• The theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it brought from other nations.

• A social theory promoting government regulation and control of trade to increase national wealth and power.
• A religious theory promoting government regulation and control of trade to increase national wealth and power.