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chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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enlightenment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society. |
monarch | king or queen |
legislature | a groupof people that makes laws |
percendant | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later similar case |
common law | a system of law based on precedent and customs |
natural rights | freedoms people passes relating to life liberty ,and property |
social contract | an agreement among people in one place who are ruled by a parent country else where |
join stock company | investors provide partial ownership in company organized for profit |
charter | a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments or a government document granting permission to organize a corperation |
compact | an agreement, or contract among a group of people |
proprietary colony | area with owner controlled land government |
royal colony | a colonial area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch |
religious dissenters | those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England. |
puritans | religious dissenters who came to the colonies to purify,or reform,the angelican church. |
Pilgrims | colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey. |
toleration | acceptance of other groups,such as religious groups. |
indentured servant | workers who contracted with American colonist for food and shelter in return for their labor |
plantation | a large estate |
triangular trade | pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas Africa and Europe |
tidewater | areas from low,flat,plains near the seacoast of Virgina and north Carolina |
egalitarianism | the philosophy or spirit of equality |
mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
boycott | the refusal to purchase ceartin goods repeal-to cancel a law. |
delegate | a Representative to a meeting |
independence | self reliance and freedom from outside control |