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ch.2 definitions
Question | Answer |
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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 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 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 groupof 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 reliogious faith other 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 religous journey |
toleration | acceptance of other groups,such as religious groups |
indentured servant | workers who contracted with american colonist for food and shelter 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 |