What stimulated Parliament’s independence from the monarchy and protected certain of Parliament’s rights, such as the right to freedom of speech, the right to regular elections, the right to petition the king, trial by jury and habeas corpus (the requirement that authorities bring an imprisoned person before a court to demonstrate the cause of the imprisonment)?

Which colony was created in 1681 when Charles II bestowed the largest proprietary colony in the Americas on William Penn to settle the large debt he owed the Penn family?

In Northampton, Massachusetts, which of the following led still another explosion of evangelical fervor, involving using vivid depictions of the terrors of hell, his best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” perfectly exemplifies this terrifying approach?  

Which of the following countries became a global power following the French and Indian War?  

What was it called when customs officials were empowered with warrants to board and search vessels suspected of containing smuggled goods?  

____________ included all the New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island) and in 1688 was enlarged by the addition of New York and New Jersey.  

In the second half of the seventeenth century, especially during the Restoration, England attempted to gain better control of trade with the American colonies, the mercantilist policies by which it tried to achieve this control are known as the 

An increased supply of consumer goods from England that became available in the eighteenth century led to a phenomenon called the  

In 1660, Parliament welcomed the son of the executed king Charles I, Charles II, back to the throne to resume the English monarchy and bring the interregnum to an end in what was known as  

This lasted from 1642 to 1649 and pitted the king, Charles I, and his Royalist supporters against Oliver Cromwell and his Parliamentary forces.