chapter 2 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
enlightenment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society. |
legislature | a group of people that makes laws. |
momarch | king or queen |
precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later similar case. |
common law | branch of law dealing with formation constitutions and interpretations of constitutions |
social contrct | an agreement among people in a society with a government. |
natural rights | freedom people possess relating to life liberty and property. |
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 granted land and the authority to set up colonial government. |
compact | an agreement or contract among a group of 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 follow a religious 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 religious journey. |
toleration | acceptance of other groups such as religious groups. |
indentured servants | workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for there 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. |
mercantilism | The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buy. |
boycott | the refusal to purchase certain goods |
delegate | A repersentive to a meeting |
independence | self-reliance and freedom from out side labor. |
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