| A | B |
| delegate | representative |
| smuggling | moving goods illegally in or out of a country |
| duty | tax on imported goods |
| repeal | to cancel |
| boycott | refuse to buy or use |
| proclamation | official announcement |
| liberty | personal freedom |
| indentured servent | person who agreed to work for someone else for a certain length of time in exchange for passage on a ship, food, shelter, and clothing |
| dissenter | someone who does not agree with offical or common views |
| economy | wealth and resource; way of producing goods |
| cash crop | crops grown in large amounts to be sold |
| plantation | large farms where crops are grown for sale |
| democracy | rule by the people |
| direct democracy | system in which the people govern themselves |
| representative democracy | system in which the people chooe leaders to govern |
| republic | country with a representative democracy |
| limited government | a rular or government being not "all-powerful" |
| legislature | lawmaking body |
| natural rights | rights that government can not take away |
| social contract | agreement in which the people agree to give up some freedom in exchange for the government's protection of people's rights |