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civics chapter 2
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 used as the basis for a juical 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 of 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 granding land and the authority to set up colonial governments |
| compact | an agreement, or contract, among a group of people |
| Proprietary colony | area with owner-controlled land and government |
| royal colony | a colonial ares of land controlled directly with 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 |
| pilgrim | colonial puritans who considered them selves people on a religious journey |
| toleration | acceptance of other groups,such as religious groups |
| indentured servant | workers who contracted with American colonists for food ans shelter in return for their labor |
| plantation | a large estate |
| triangle trade | patten of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americans,Africa and Europe |
| tide water | areas of low, flatplains near the sea coast of virginia and north carolina |
| egalitarianism | the philosophy or spirit of equality |
| mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other contries then it buys |
| boy cott | the refusal to purchase curtain goods |
| repeal | to cancel a law |
| delegate | a representative to a meeting |
| independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control |
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