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chapter 2 terms
civics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Enlightenment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve soceity |
| monarch | king or queen |
| legislature | group of people that makes laws |
| precedent | ruling that is used as the basis for a judical decision in a later, similar case |
| common law | system of law based on precedent and customs |
| natural rights | freedoms people posses relating life, liberty, and shelter |
| social contract | agreement among people in society with a government |
| colony | group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere |
| compact | agreement or contract, amoung a group of people |
| charter | written documement granting land and authority to set up colonial governments |
| joint stock company | investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit |
| proprietary colony | area with owner conrolled land and govenment |
| puritan | religous dissenter who came to the colonies to purify or reform the angglic church |
| pilgrims | colonial puritans who consider themselvs people of religous journey |
| planataion | large estate |
| royal colony | cololial area of land controlled directly by a king or monarchy |
| religous dissenters | those who follow a religous faith other than the offical religon of englang |
| toleration | acceptance of other groups such as religous groups |
| triangular trade | pattern of trade that developed in the colonial times among americas, africa, and europe |
| indentured servant | workers who contracted with americans colonialist f0r food and shelter in return for their labor |
| egalitarianism | philosophy or spirit of equality |
| tidewater | areas of low flat plains near the seacost of virginia and north carolina |
| boycott | refusual to buy certian goods |
| delegent | representative to a meeting |
| independence | self reliance and freedom from outside controll |
| mercantilism | theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
| repeal | to cancel law |
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