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Civics Chap2 terms ~
Chapter 2
| 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| repealed | To cancel a law |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 |