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chapter 2 vocabulary
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 ruling that is used as the basis for a judical decision in a later, similar case. |
COMMON LAW | A system of law based on precedent and customs. |
NATURAL RIGHTS | Freedoms people posses 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 | Invertors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit. |
CHARTER | A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governa government document grating permission to organize a corporation. |
COMPACT | An agreement, or contract, among a group of people. |
PROPRIETARY COLONY | Area with owner-controlled land and goverment. |
ROYAL COLONY | A colony area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch. |
RELIGIOUS DISSENTERS | Those who followed 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 | Respecting and acepting other, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or differences. |
INDENTURED SERVANT | Workers who contracted with American olonists for food and shelter in return for heir labor. |
PLANTATION | A large estate |
TRIANGULAR TRADE | Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americans, Africa, an Europe. |
TIDEWATER | Area of low, fat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina. |
EGALITATIANISM | The philosophy or spirit of equality. |
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 the law. |
DELEGATE | A representative to a meeting. |
INDEPENDENCE | Self-reliance and freedom from outside control. |