chapter 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| enlightenment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society
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| monarch | a government with a hereditary single leader
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| legislature | a group of people that make laws
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| precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case
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| common law | a system of law based on precedent and customs
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| natural rights | freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property
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| social contract | an agreement among people in a society with a government
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| colony | a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country else where
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| joint stock company | investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit
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| charter | a written document granting land and the authority, to set up colonial governments or a government documents granting permission to organize a corporation
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| compact | an agreement or contract, among a group of people
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| proprietary colony | area with owner controlled land and government
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| royal colony | a colonial area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch
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| religious dissenters | those who followed a religious faith other that the official religious of England
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| puritans | religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify or reform, the Anglican church
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| toleration | acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups
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| pilgrims | colonial puritans who considered them selves people on a religious journey
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| indentured servant | workers who contracted with american colonist for food and shelter in return for their labor
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| plantation | a large estate
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| o quire | to gain or get possession of
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| triangular trade | pattern of trade that developed in the colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe
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| decade | a period of 10 years
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| tidewater | area of low, flat plains near the sea coast of Virginia and North Carolina
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| egalitarianism | the philosophy or sprite of equality
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| mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys
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| boycott | the refusal to purchase certain goods
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| repeal | to cancel a law
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| delegate | a representative to a meeting
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| independence | self reliance and freedom from outside control
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