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WSHS C/E Chap 2
WSHS - 2nd - C/E - Chap. 2 Terms - Boyd/Tedder
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Precedent | a past ruling that judges use to help decide a case |
| Colony | a group of people that live in a territory but keep ties to their parent country |
| Charter | a written document that grants land and the authority to set up colonial governments |
| Enlightenment | a cultural movement that started in England in the 1600s |
| Natural rights | rights such as life, liberty and property, that no government can take away (written by John Locke) |
| Common law | a system of law that rests on court decisions rather than regulations written by lawmakers |
| Joint-stock company | a company that provides investors partial ownership and a share in future profits |
| Social contract | a contract in which people agree to obey the government, while the government agrees to protect their rights |
| Legislature | an organized government body that has the power to make laws |
| Compact | an agreement among a group of people |
| Royal colony | a colony owned and ruled by a king |
| Pilgrims | people on a religious journey |
| Plantation | a large estate that is usually worked by people who also live there |
| Indentured servant | someone who is bound to work for another person in return for payment of his or her travel expenses |
| Puritans | religious reformers who founded Massachusetts |
| Proprietary colony | an owner controlled colony, ie when New York was granted to the Duk of York |
| Toleration | the government policy of accepting unofficial religions |
| Religious dissenters | people in New England and the Middle Colonies who followed a religious faith other than the Anglican religion |
| Triangular trade | a system of shipping slaves that included America, Africa, and the West Indies |
| Egalitarianism | the belief in human equality, with respect to social, political, and economic rights |
| Tidewater | land that includes low plains near the coast of North Carolina |
| Delegate | a representative to a convention or conference |
| Merchantilism | an economic system based on the theory that a country’s power depends on its wealth |
| Boycott | refusal to buy something |
| Independence | the state of being self-governing and free from outside control |
| Repeal | to call back or cancel an act through legal means |
| monarch | a king or queen who rules a nation |
| magna carta | a contract that limited the power of a monarch by pledging that no one would be above the law, not even the king or queen |
| parliment | the English legislature |
| merchantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
| delegates | representatives |
| self-reliance | freedom |
| "Common Sense" | a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine supporting the colonists independence |
| Declaration of Independence | a document that announced the independence of the United States from British rule |
| Thomas Jefferson | the main author of the Declaration of Independence |
| consitution | a written plan of government |
| bicameral | a two house system of government |
| confederation | a group of individuals or state governments that band together for common cause |
| Articles of Confederation | created the first constitution of the United States of America |
| 1781 | the year the Articles of the Confederation was ratified |
| amend | to change |
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