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Vocabulary
Allegiance
- Duty, loyalty
Alliance
- Association; friendship Anarchy
- No government Boycott
- To reduce or stop the
use and purchase of a certain product or activity Broadside
- A single printed sheet
relating information about an event, person, or idea and is posted for
the public to read Committee
of Correspondence - Official
group appointed to spread news to others and to propose, coordinate, and
carry out actions. First
such group was organized in 1765 in opposition to the Stamp Act. Constitution - Fundamental laws and principles by which a group is governed Delegates - Representatives; those who speak for others Democracy - Government by the people Duty
- Tax Grievances
- Complaints; troubles Monarchy
- Governed by a single person:
king, queen Petition
- Written, formal request Propaganda
- Devises deliberately used to influence thoughts and actions in a
particular cause Rebellion
- Resistance against the government Sovereign
- Independent; subject to no higher authority Tories
- Name given to those who strongly supported the views of King
George III and Parliament.
Colonists who were loyal to the King were also referred to as
Loyalists. Tyranny
- Cruel and unjust use of power Whigs
- A political party in
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