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chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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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 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 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 | investors provide partial ownership in a company organized by profit |
charter | a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments of a government document granting permission to organize a cooperation. |
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 another monarch. |
religious dissenters | those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England. |
puritans | religious dissenters 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 group,such as religious groups. |
indentured servants | workers who contracted with American colonist for food and shelter in reform for their labor |
plantation | a large estate |
triangular trade | pattern or trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas,Africa and Europe. |
tidewater | areas of low,flat plains near the sea cost of Virgina 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 buys. |
boycott | the refusal to purchase certain goods. |
repealed | to cancel a law. |
delegates | a representative to a meeting |
independence | self-reliance and freedom from out-side control. |