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Independance vocab
Term | Definition |
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Revenue | incoming money from taxes and other resources |
Writ of assistance | court allowing custom officers |
Resolution | an officer expression of opinion in a group |
Effigy | to refuse buy items in order to show disapproval of force acceptance of ones terms |
Boycott | a mocking figure representing an unpopular individual |
Repeal | to cancel an act or law |
Rebellion | a defiance of authority |
Propaganda | ideas of information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause |
Committee of correspondence | an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies |
Minuteman | during the Revolutinary era civilian are sworn to be ready to fight with only one minutes notice |
Loyalist | american colonist who remained loyal to britain and opposed the war for independance |
Patriot | American colonist who favored American idependance |
Petition | a formal request |
Preamble | the introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written. |