| A | B |
|---|
| Parliament | elected leaders spoke for British citizens in this part of the government |
| self-government | when a group is able to make laws for themselves |
| democracy | a government in which the people take part |
| legislatures | like small local parliments, they were groups of elected people who made laws |
| allies | friends in war |
| taxes | moeny paid to a government to run a country |
| authority | control |
| tariff | a tax on goods brought into a country |
| Loyalists | also called Tories, colonists that held the British view |
| representation | shen someone acts or speaks for someone else |
| treason | when someone works against the government |
| petitions | signed requests for action |
| liberty | to most colonists this word meant freedom to make their own laws |
| boycott | refuse to buy |
| congress | a meeting of representatives who have the authority to make decisions |
| repealed | took away, made something invalid |
| massacre | the killing of people who can't defend themselves |
| Committees of Correspondence | committees that wrote letters to one another |
| consequences | results |
| blockade | use warships to prevent other ships from entering or leaving a harbor |
| Continental Congress | a meeting of representatives of all the colonies, the first one on the North American continent |
| rights | freedoms |
| Minutemen | fighters who could be ready in a minute to defend Massachusettes |
| Patriots | the name for the colonists who were against the British |
| trade-off | to get one thing you have to give up something else |
| opportunity cost | what you give up is the |
