vocab
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Enlightenment | movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society
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monarch | king or queen
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legislature | a group of people that makes laws
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precedent | a ruling that used as the basis for a juical 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 of 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 granding land and the authority to set up colonial governments
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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 ares of land controlled directly with a king or other monarch
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religious dissenters | those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion 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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pilgrim | colonial puritans who considered them selves people on a religious journey
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toleration | acceptance of other groups,such as religious groups
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indentured servant | workers who contracted with American colonists for food ans shelter in return for their labor
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plantation | a large estate
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triangle trade | patten of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americans,Africa and Europe
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tide water | areas of low, flatplains near the sea coast of virginia and north carolina
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egalitarianism | the philosophy or spirit of equality
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mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other contries then it buys
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boy cott | the refusal to purchase curtain 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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