Ch.2 Civics Test
Terms
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- compact
- an agreement between a group of people
- loyalists
- people in the colonies that remain loyal to the king
- religious dissenters
- those who followed a faith other than the official one of England
- national rights
- rights to life, liberty, and property that no gov't can take away
- delegate
- representative
- legislature
- a group that makes laws
- precedent
- a ruling in an earlier case that was similar
- common law
- system of law based on using precedent
- social contract
- an agreement among people in society
- proprietary colony
- the owner or proprietor owned the land controlled by gov't
- triangular trade
- a pattern of trade developed among the Americas, Africa, and Europe that traded enslaved people, resources, rum, and finished products
- joint-stock company
- a business that allows people to be partial owners who share in profits
- plantation
- large estate
- independence
- self-reliant and freedom from outside control
- royal colony
- owned and ruled directly by the king
- colony
- a group of people in one place; ruled by the gov't of another