Civics - Unit 1 Vocab

a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case

• legislature

• social contract

• precedent

• royal colony

those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England

• religious dissenters

• royal colony

• indentured servants

• triangular trade

a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere

• social contract

• egalitarianism

• proprietary colony

• colony

pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe

• religious dissenters

• triangular trade

• common law

• enlightenment

movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society

• Social contract

• Egalitarianism

• mercantilism

• enlightenment

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

• Legislature

• Precedent

• mercantilism

• Egalitarianism

workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor

• indentured servant

• triangular trade

• Natural rights

• Precedent

a system of law based on precedent and customs

• Precedent

• Proprietary colony

• Joint stock company

• common law

an agreement among people in a society with a government

• Natural rights

• Social contract

• Common law

• Enlightenment

area with owner-controlled land and government

• Mercantilism

• Religious dissenters

• Royal colony

• Proprietary colony