U.1 Chapter 2 Sect 2 and 3 Vocabulary

a formal agreement or contract between two or more parties

• compact

• transaction

to rebel against authority, especially on a ship

• mutiny

• abandon

a group of people gathered together for a specific purpose

• democracy

• assembly

to prepare and use land for crops

• cultivate

• agriculture

a person who is bound to work for another for a specified period of time

• slave

• indentured servant

• butler

• housemaid

to force someone to work as a slave

• homestead

• residential worker

• indentured servitude

• enslave

having rights, privileges, responsibilities, and duties as a member of a community, state, or nation

• councilman

• dictatorship

• citizenship

• police juror

engaging with public issues that affect the community

• civic participation

• representation

• democratic process

• election

the principle that all people in a society are expected to obey the law, and laws are communicated and applied fairly regardless of a person’s status or position

• enforcement

• rule of law

• equality

• separate law

a Pilgrim who no longer belonged to the Church of England

• Baptist

• Methodist

• Puritan

• Separatist