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Chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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Enlightenment | Movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society. |
Monarch | King or Queen. |
Legislature | Group of people that makes laws. |
Precedent | Ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. |
Common Law | A system of laws based on precedent and customs. |
Natural Rights | Freedoms people posses relating to life, liberty, and property. |
Social Contract | An agreement among people in a society with a government. |
Colony | 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 | Written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments; or government document granting permission to organize a corporation. |
Compact | 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 a king or other monarch. |
Religious Dissenters | Those who have followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England. |
Puritans | Religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church. |
Pilgrims | Colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey. |
Toleration | Respecting and accepting others, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or differences. |
Indentured Servant | 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 Americas, Africa, and Europe. |
Tidewater | Areas of low, flat plains near the sea coast of Virginia and North Carolina. |
Egalitaranism | The philosophy or spirit of equality. |
Mercantilism | The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys. |
Boycotte | The refusal to purchase certain goods. |
Repeal | To cancel a law. |
Delegate | A representative to a meeting. |
Independance | Self-reliance and freedom from an outside country. |