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chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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Enlightment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could prove |
monarch | king or queen |
legislative | a group of people that makes laws |
precedent | a ruling that is used as the bias for a judicial decsion |
common law | a system of law based on precedent and customs |
natrual rights | freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and properity |
social contract | an agreement among people in a society with 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 for profit |
charter | a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments or a government document 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 follow a religious faith other than the official religion of England |
Puritans | religious dissenters who came up to the colonies to purfiy, or reform, the Anglican Church |
Pilgrams | colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey |
toleration | a system in which governments control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |
indentured servant | workers who contracted with american colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor |
plantation | a large estate |
triangular trade | pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americans, Africa, and Europe |
Tidewater | areas of low, flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina |
egalitarianism | the philosophy or sprit of equality |
mercantilism | the theroy that a country should tell more goods to other countries than it buys |
boycott | the refusal to purchase certrian goods |
repeal | to cancel a law |
delegate | a representative to a meeting |
independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control |