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chapter 2 vocabulary

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ENLIGHTENMENT   movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society  
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MONARCH   King or queen.  
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LEGISLATURE   A group of people that makes laws.  
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PRECEDENT   A ruling that is used as the basis for a judical 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 posses relating to life, liberty, and property.  
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SOCIAL CONTRACT   An agreement among people in a society with a government.  
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COLONY   A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.  
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JOINT-STOCK COMPANY   Invertors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit.  
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CHARTER   A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governa government document grating permission to organize a corporation.  
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COMPACT   An agreement, or contract, among a group of people.  
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PROPRIETARY COLONY   Area with owner-controlled land and goverment.  
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ROYAL COLONY   A colony area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch.  
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RELIGIOUS DISSENTERS   Those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England.  
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PURITANS   Religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church.  
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PILGRIMS   Colonial Puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey.  
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TOLERATION   Respecting and acepting other, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or differences.  
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INDENTURED SERVANT   Workers who contracted with American olonists for food and shelter in return for heir labor.  
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PLANTATION   A large estate  
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TRIANGULAR TRADE   Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americans, Africa, an Europe.  
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TIDEWATER   Area of low, fat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina.  
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EGALITATIANISM   The philosophy or spirit of equality.  
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MERCANTILISM   The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.  
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BOYCOTT   The refusal to purchase certain goods.  
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REPEAL   To cancel the law.  
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DELEGATE   A representative to a meeting.  
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INDEPENDENCE   Self-reliance and freedom from outside control.  
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