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