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| movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society. |
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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 in a later, similar case. |
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| a system of law based on precedent and custom |
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| freedoms people possess relation to life, liberty, and property. |
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| an agreement among people in a society 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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| investors provide partial owndership in a company organized for profit |
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| a written document granting land and the authority to set up 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 dissenters 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 their labor |
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| pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the americas, africa,and europe. |
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| areas of low, flat plains near the sea coast of virginia and north carolina |
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| the philosophy of spirit of equality |
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| the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys. |
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| the refusal to purchase certain goods |
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| a representative to a meeting |
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| self-reliance and freedom from outside control |
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