Chapter 2
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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 | Group of people that makes laws.
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| Precedent | 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 laws based on precedent and customs.
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| Natural Rights | Freedoms people posses 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 elsewhere.
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| Joint-Stock Company | Investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit.
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| Charter | Written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments; or government document 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 have 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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| Pilgrims | Colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey.
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| Toleration | Respecting and accepting others, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or differences.
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| Indentured Servant | Workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor.
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| Plantation | A large estate.
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| Triangular Trade | Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
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| Tidewater | Areas of low, flat plains near the sea coast of Virginia and North Carolina.
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| Egalitaranism | The philosophy or spirit 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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| Boycotte | 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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| Independance | Self-reliance and freedom from an outside country.
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