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