civics chapter 2
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| enlightenment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society.
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| monarch | a king or queen
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| legislature | a group of people that make laws
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| precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later similar case
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| common law | a system of law based on precedent and customs
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| natural rights | freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property.
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| social contract | is a agreement among the people in a society.
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| colony | is a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.
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| joint-stock company | investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit
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| charter | written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial government.
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| compact | a agreement or contract among a group of people.
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| proprietary colony | the owner, or proprietor owned the land and controlled the government.
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| royal colony | a colonial are of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch.
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| religious dissenters | people who follow a religious faith more different from england
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| puritans | a a religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reforn, the aglican chruch.
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| pilgrim | people on a religious journey
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| toleration | not accepting other beliefs, practices, or differences.
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| indentured servant | workers who contracted with american colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor
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| plantation | large estate
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| triangular trade | the pattern of trade that developed among the americans, africa, and europe.
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| tidewater | areas of flat low plains near the seacoast
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| egalitarianism | equality
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| mercantilism | theory that a countries power depends on its wealth
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| boycott | refuse to buy british goods
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| repealed | to cancel
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| delegate | representatives
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| independence | self reliance and freedom from outside control
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