Road To Revoultion Vocabulary

Question 0

A group of representatives who meet to discuss a subject.

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Congress

Question 1

Is a person or group that joins with another to work toward a goal.

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Ally

Question 2

Is a official public statement

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Proclamation

Question 3

Is a fight against a government.

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Rebellion

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Is money people pay their government in return for services.

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Tax

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Means to import goods illegally, to avoid paying taxes, or because the product is forbidden

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Smuggling

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Means freedom from being controlled by another government

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Liberty

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A group of people refuses to buy, sell, or use certain goods. People might boycott a product because of price, tax, or working conditions of the workers who make the product.

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Boycott

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Cancel a law. It means the law isn’t a law anymore

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Repeal

Question 9

An event were people complain about an issue

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Protest

Question 10

A killing of many people

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Massacre

Question 11

Is written communication

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Correspondence

Question 12

A person chosen to speak and act for others, like a representative

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Delegate

Question 13

People who were loyal to the king, and didn’t want to fight for another country

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Loyalist

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Ceremony when a new person becomes president

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Inauguration

Question 15

Is a defeat of a enemy

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Victory

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A plan of action

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Strategy

Question 17

Means to not take sides, not a patriot or a loyalist

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Neutral

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Means to give up

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Surrender

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Is someone who is not loyal. Betrays their country.

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Traitor

Question 20

The officer in charge of an army

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General

Question 21

To get people a room and food

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To Quarter soldiers

Question 22

Means to move back, away from a enemy

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Retreat

Question 23

Is a soldier who is paid to fight for a foreign country

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Mercenary

Question 24

Is a rise in the price of goods

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Inflation

Question 25

Is a statement that declares, or announces, an idea

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Declaration

Question 26

Is the crime of fighting against one's own government

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Treason

Question 27

Are freedoms that are protected by a government's laws

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Rights

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Means freedom from being ruled by somebody else

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Independence

Question 29

Is a request from a number of people

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Petition

Question 30

Were militia with special training. They had to be ready to fight on a minute's notice

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Minutemen

Question 31

Is a group of ordinary people who train to fight in battles. Most of the men in the colonial are were farmers. They were not part of a regular army

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Militia

Question 32

Colonists who opposed British rule called themselves...

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Patriots