unit 2 vocab

Question 1

Enlightenment

Answer 1

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

Question 2

monarch

Answer 2

king or queen

Question 3

legislature

Answer 3

a group of people that makes laws

Question 4

precedent

Answer 4

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

Question 5

common law

Answer 5

a system of law based on precedent and customs

Question 6

natural rights

Answer 6

freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and prosperity

Question 7

social contract

Answer 7

an agreement among people in a society with a government

Question 8

colony

Answer 8

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

Question 9

joint-stock company

Answer 9

investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit

Question 10

charter

Answer 10

a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments; or a government document granting permission to organize a corporaiton

Question 11

compact

Answer 11

an agreement, or contract, among a group of people

Question 12

document

Answer 12

a written paper that provides information or proof of something

Question 13

authority

Answer 13

power or influence over other people or groups; person or persons having the power of government

Question 14

grant

Answer 14

to allow or permt

Question 15

mercantilism

Answer 15

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

Question 16

boycott

Answer 16

the refusal to purchase certain goods

Question 17

repeal

Answer 17

to cancel a law

Question 18

delegate

Answer 18

a representative to a meeting

Question 19

independence

Answer 19

self-reliance and freedom from outside control

Question 20

challenge

Answer 20

a demand for justification or a dispute

Question 21

restore

Answer 21

to bring back into existence or put back in an original condition