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Chapter 2 nathan
chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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Enlightenment | The movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society. |
Monarch | King or Queen |
Legislature | A group of people that make 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 elsewhere. |
Charter | A written document granting 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 Dissenter | 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 | Acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups. |
Indentured Servents | Workers who contracted themselves people on a religious journey. |
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 of spirit of equality. |
Mercantillism | The thought 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 | Self-reliance and freedom from outside control. |