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| movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve sociecity. |
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| a group of people that makes laws. |
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| a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision a later, similar case. |
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| a system of law based on precedent and customs |
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| freedoms people pocess relating to life, liberty, and property. |
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| an agreement among people in a socieity with a government |
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| a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere |
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| investers provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit. |
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| a written document granted land and the authority to setuo colonial governments or a government document granting permission to organize a corporation. |
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| an agreement, or contract, among a group of people. |
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| area with owner-controlled land and government. |
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| a colonial area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch. |
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| those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England. |
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| religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican church. |
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| colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey. |
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| acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups. |
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| workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for laber. |
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| pattern of trade that developed in colonial times amoung the Americas, Africa, and Europe. |
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| areas of low, flat plains near the seacost of virginia and north carolina |
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| the philosophy or spirit of equality |
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| the theory that a country should sell more goods to other centuries than it buys |
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| the refusal to purchase certain goods |
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| a representive to a meeting |
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| self-reliance and freedom to outside control |
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| a detailed, written plan for government |
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| a legislature consisting of two parts or houses. |
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| a group of individuals or state governments |
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