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Civics Chapter 2 Kbb
Civics Chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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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 legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases. |
Common Law | The law administered through the system of courts established for the purpose, as distinct from equity or admiralty |
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; or a government document granting permission to organize a corporation. |
Compact | An agreement, or contract,among a group of people. |
Document | A written paper that provides information or proof of something. |
Authority | Power or influence over other people or groups person or persons having the power of government. |
Grant | To allow or permit |
Proprietary | Area with |
Royal Colony | Owner-controlled land and government. |
Religious Dissenters | Those who followed a religious faith over than the official religion of England. |
Puritans | A member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a pow |
Pilgrims | Colonial Puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey. |
Toleration | Acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups. |
Indentured Servant | Workers who contracted with American colonists 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. |
Acquire | To gain or get possession of. |
Decade | A period of 10 years. |
Tidewater | Areas of low, flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina. |
Egalitarianism | The philosophy or spirit of equality. |
Adapt | To adjust or become adjusted to a situation or condition. |
Assit | To help or aid. |
Mercantilism | The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys. |
Boycott | The refusal to purchase .certain goods |
Repeal | To cancel a law. |
Delegate | A representative to a meeting. |
Independence | Freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others. |
Challenge | A call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc. |
Restore | To bring back into existence or put back in an original condition. |
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