Question | Answer |
Enlightenment | movement that soread the idea that reason and science could improve society |
monarch | king or queen |
legistature | a group of people that makes laws |
precedent | a ruling that used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later , similar case |
common law | a system of law based on precedent and customs |
social contract | an agreement among people in a society with a government |
colony | is 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 | is 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 king or other monarch |
religious dissenters | those who fllowed a religious faith other than the official religion of england |
puritans | religious dissenter who come to the colonies to purify , or reform the anglican church |
pilgrims | colonial puritans who considered them selves people on religious journey |
toleration | acceptance of groups such as religious groups |
indentured servants | 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 spirit of equality |
mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
boycott | the refusal to purchase certain goods |
repealed | to cancel a law |
delegates | a representative to a meeting |
independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control |