Civics Chapter 2 Vocabulary Quiz

New ideas about law, society, and the rights people possessed.

• Precedent

• Enlightenment

• Social Contract

• Compact

A law making body.

• legislature

• colony

• monarch

• Indentured servant

A system of law based on precedents.

• social contract

• natural rights

• common law

• legislature

A proprietary colony is one in which the owner of the land or proprietor is in control of the government. This colony was a proprietary colony that was based on the freedom of religion.

• New York

• New Jersey

• Massachusetts

• Pennsylvania

Those who followed a faith other than the official religion England.

• religious dissenters

• toleration

• indentured servant

• egalitarianism

The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.

• boycott

• repeal

• mercantilism

• independence

To refuse to buy.

• boycott

• repeal

• obstain

• mercantilism

^{A document which restricted the power of the King and recognized that the English people had rights that should be protected by law.}

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Rule of Law

A two house legislature is called?

• unicameral

• bi-cameral

• two house

• double cameral

A ruling in an earlier case that was similar to another case.

• common law

• president

• precedent

• natural rights