Civics Chap2 terms ~ Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
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 |
Compact | an agreement, or contract, among a group of people . |
Proprietary colony | In which the owner, or proprietor, owned the land and controlled the government. |
Royal colony | One owned and ruled directly by the King |
Indentured servant | workers who contracted with American colonist for food and shelter in return 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 flat, low plans, near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina. |
Egalitarianism | The philosophy or spirit of equality. |
Mercantilism | the theory that a country's power depends on its wealth. |
Boycott | The refusal to purchase certain goods. |
repealed | To cancel a law |
Delegate | situation in which government spends more than it collects in revenues |
independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control. |
Pilgrims | colonial Puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey |
Puritan | religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church |
Toleration | acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups |
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