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chapter 2 Vocab.
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 makes 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 precedents and customs |
Natural Rights | Freedoms and 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 i one place who are ruled by a apparent 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 |
Compact | An agreement, or contract among a group of people |
Proprietary Colony | Are 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 religion faith other than the official religion of England |
Puritans | Religious dissenters who came to the colonies to purify, or reform the Anglican church |
Pilgrams | Colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey |
Plantation | A large estate |
Indentured servant | workers who contracted with american colonist for food and shelter in return for their labor |
Toleration | Acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups |
Triangular trade | Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, African and europe |
Tidewater | Areas of low, flat-plains near 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 countries than it buys |
Boyscott | The refusal to purchase certain goods |
Delegates | A representative to a meeting |
Independence | Self-Reliance and freedom from outside control |
Repeal | To cancel a law |