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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 at 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 peoples posses relating to life, liberty, and property |
Social contract | an agreement among people in a society with a government. |
Colony | a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere. |
joint-stock company | investors provide partial ownership in a company for profit. |
Charter | a written document granting land and the authority to step up colonial governments or a government document granting permission to organize a corporation. |
Compact | an agreement or contact , 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 then die, than the official religion of England |
Puritans | 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 servants | workers who contracted with Americans colonists 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 of low , flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia 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 certain goods |
Repealed | to cancel a law |
Delegates | a representative to a meeting. |
Independence | a self-reliance and freedom from outside control. |