List+of+terms

__Terms__ regarding the colonies

Town meeting - place where people discussed and decided issues of local interest

__English Bill of Rights__ - Act of Parliament guaranteeing basic freedoms and rights to English citizens

Legislature - the lawmaking body or assembly with the power to create or change laws

Triangular Trade - a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the colonies and West Indies, Britain, and Africa

Middle Passage - the slave trade that brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

Great Awakening - a movement in the 1730s and 1740s to revive and spread religion in the colonies

Enlightenment - a movement in Europe in the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society

Frontier - the unsettled area beyond the colonies

Mercantilism - practice of creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade

Parliament - the legislature of Great Britain, which passed laws for the U.K. and the colonies

Repeal - the removal or reversal of a law

Patriots - colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution

Loyalists - American colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain and the British monarchy during and after the American Revolutionary War

Neutralists - colonists who either didn't want to fight, lived too far away to fight, or believed in both Loyalist and Patriot principles ; many times they were mistaken for loyalists because they wouldn't fight

Boycott - the act of voluntarily not using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest, usually of political reasons.