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SS Unit 2 Ch 1 Vocab
Chapter 1 Vocabulary
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| a group of representatives and the king and queen that makes laws for the country of Great Britain | Parliament |
| a type of colony means a monarch had granted a charter to a joint-stock company to set up a colony | charter colony |
| a type of colony was made up of areas were gifted by a monarch as a reward or payment | proprietary colony |
| a type of colony was a governed by a governor on behalf of a monarch | royal colony |
| a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church | Protestant |
| a person who owes money | debtor |
| a member of Parliament; appointed to head the colony of Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
| a neutral area that separates rival nations or factions | buffer zone |
| relating to the land (like farming) | agrarian |
| farmers who owned and cultivated a small farm | yeoman |
| a person who speaks or acts on behalf of someone else | representative |
| the ability of people to rule themselves and make their own laws | self-government |
| control or place limits on trade across the empire | regulate |
| a group of people that make laws | assembly |
| document that provided protections against unfair actions by the government; also protected liberties such as the right to gather peacefully and the right to petition the government for a change in a law | English Bill of Rights of 1689 |
| a branch of a religion | denomination |
| an intellectual movement that began in Europe and spread to the colonies during the 1700s; strongly influenced how American colonists thought about government and about their rights | Enlightenment |
| not religious | secular |
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