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Chapter 2 Vocab.
Definitions
Question | Answer |
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movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society. | Enlightenment |
king or queen | Monarch |
a group of people that makes laws | Legislature |
a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. | Precedent |
a system of law based on precedent and customs. | Common Law |
freedoms people possess | Natural Rights |
relating to life, liberty and property | Social Contract |
a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere. | Colony |
investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit | Joint-Stock Company |
a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments (or a government document granting permission to organize a corporation.) | Charter |
an agreement or contract, among a group of people | Compact |
area with owner-controlled land and government. | Proprietary Colony |
a colonial area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch | Royal Colony |
those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England. | Religious Dissenters |
religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church. | Puritans |
colonial puritans who considereed themselves people on a religious journey | Pilgrims |
acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups | Toleration |
workers who contracted with american colonisits for food and shelter in return for their labor | Indentured Servant |
a large estate | Plantation |
pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe. | Triangular Trade |
areas of low, flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina. | Tidewater |
the philosophy or spirit of equality | Egalitarianism |
the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys | Mercantilism |
the refusal to purchase certain goods | Boycott |
to cancel a law | Repeal |
a representative to a meeting | Delegate |
self-reliance and freedom from outside control | Independence |