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chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| enlightenment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society |
| monarch | a government with a hereditary single leader |
| 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 else where |
| 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 documents granting permission to organize a corporation |
| 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 dissenters | those who followed a religious faith other that the official religious of England |
| puritans | religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify or reform, the Anglican church |
| toleration | acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups |
| pilgrims | colonial puritans who considered them selves people on a religious journey |
| indentured servant | workers who contracted with american colonist for food and shelter in return for their labor |
| plantation | a large estate |
| o quire | to gain or get possession of |
| triangular trade | pattern of trade that developed in the colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe |
| decade | a period of 10 years |
| tidewater | area of low, flat plains near the sea coast of Virginia and North Carolina |
| egalitarianism | the philosophy or sprite 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 a law |
| delegate | a representative to a meeting |
| independence | self reliance and freedom from outside control |
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