| Term | Definition |
|---|
| adowa | battle in which the Italians were defeated by the Ethiopians |
| Haille Selassie | Ethhiopian emperor that was vanquished by the Italians |
| Barry Goldwater | A hard Republican who ran against LBJ in 1964 elections |
| Magna Carta | the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 |
| Runnymeade | meadow along thames river in england, where king john forced to sign magna carta |
| Dynasty | a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time |
| Tudors | Family that took over throne after War of roses |
| War of the Roses | conflict between two rival branches, York and Lancaster, in England |
| yorks | one of the families in the war of the roses; used the white rose as an emblem |
| Lancaster | the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461 used the red rose |
| Bosworth field | last battle of war of roses, Lancaster victory because defeat of Richard III at the hands of Henry Tudor, who immediately set up Tudor empire |
| Toutan | Schumacher's sons middle name (battle site) |
| Elizabeth Tudor | Queen of England; ascended throne in 1558 also known as the "virgin" Queen |
| Stuarts | ruling family of Scotland, throne passed after death of Elizabeth I |
| James I | the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1925 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625 |
| King James version | an English translation of the Bible published in 1611 |
| apochrapha | books of the bible that king James edited out in his version |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America |
| Croatan | random word dude found in North Carolina settlement when everyone had vanised |
| Virgina Dare | first child born in North America |
| Divine Right | belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god. |
| Charles I | son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland, He never summoned Parliment, |
| 1642-1649 | English Civil War |
| homicide | the killing of a human being by another human being |
| suicide | the act of killing yourself |
| matricide | murder of your mother |
| patricide | murder of your father |
| regicide | the act of killing a king |
| Oliver Cromwell | Lord Protector of England for much of the 1650s, ruling in place of the country's traditional monarchy. |
| commonwealth | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
| Richard | the English King often called the Lionhearted |
| peeps diary | random journal that Charles II kept |
| Charles II | King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685) |
| King James II | king during early colonization; overthrown by William of Orange in the "Glorious Revolutuion" of 1688 |
| William and Mary | King and Queen of England in 1688. With them, King James' Catholic reign ended. As they were Protestant, the Puritans were pleased because only protestants could be office-holders. |
| Glorious Revolution of 1688 | The English revolt against the unpopular Catholic King James II and the subsequent introduction of certain civil rights restricting monarchic powers |
| English Bill of Rights | document that gave England a government based on a system of laws and a freely elected parliament |
| Queen Ann | queen form 1700-1715 has no child |
| King George I | from the house of Hanover in Germany King after Ann has no child |
| salutary neglect | An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies |
| French and indian war | a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by indian tribes) |
| seven years war | Known in America as French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. |
| historiography | study of writing history |
| iconaclasm | breaking the idea of what someone was in popular belief |
| Stamp Act 1765 | was issued on all paper products like stamps, newspaper, etc |
| ubiquitous | being present everywhere at once |
| Stamp Act congress | group of colonists who protested the Stamp Act, saying that Parliament couldn't tax without colonist' consent |
| Formenter | someone who makes trouble |
| Samuel adams | Put up posters describing the Boston Massacre as a slaughter |
| Boston Massacre | a 1770 conflict in which five colonists were killed by British troops |
| Tea Tax | 1773 Brittain Taxed the colonist for tea |
| Homestead exemption | excuses part of the value of the home from the property tax is $75,000 |
| Boston Tea Party | demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor |
| Intolerable acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British |
| draconian | strict |
| first Continental Congress | Delagates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with britain and to promote independence, 1774, Declaration of Rights |
| Minutemen | Member of a militia during the American Revolution who could be ready to fight in sixty seconds |
| Lexington | town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought April 15, 1775 |
| cinque | Leader of the SLA |
| nom de guerre | a name taken or bestowed during wartime |
| Amistad | Slave ship that was overthrown by the slaves that was led by a slave named Cinque |
| League of nations | International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s. (763) |
| Edwin Edwards | Democrat-LA, 4 time Goveronr (72-96), sentenced in 2001 to 10 yrs for racketeering |
| Edwin Edwards quote | The only way I could lose is if I was found in bed with a live boy or a dead girl |
| The hustings | campaign trail |
| proclamation of 1763 | A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east. |
| depotism | Tyranny |
| GOP | Grand ole party (republican party) |
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