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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 group of people that makes laws |
Precedent | 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 possess relating to life,liberty, and property |
Social contract | an agreement among people in a society with government |
Colony | a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent county elsewhere. |
Joint-stock company | investors provide partial ownership in a 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 corporation. |
Compact | an agreement, or contract, among a group of people. |
Proprietary colony | area with owner-controlled land and 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 |
Puritan | religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican 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 colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor |
Plantantion | a large estate |
Triangular Trade | pattern of trade that developed in colonial time among the Americans, Africa, and Europe |
Tidewater | area of low, flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina |
Egalitarianism | The philosophy or spirit of equality |
Mecrantillism | the theory that a county should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
Boycott | the refusal to purschase certain goods |
Repeal | to cancel a law |
Delegate | a representative to a meeting. |
Independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control. |