| A | B |
|---|
| mercantilism | economic policy used by mother countries to get rich from their colonies |
| duty | a tax on imported goods |
| continuum | a line showing a range of things with opposites on each end |
| repeal | do away with a law (cancel it) |
| Parliament | England's law making body |
| writs of assistance | special search warrants British officers used to search for smuggled goods |
| Sons of Liberty | radical colonists who would use violence to bring about change |
| Navigation Acts | laws passed in the 1600's to enforce mercantilism. they were strictly enforced after 1763 |
| militia | citizen soldiers who fought though not actually in the regular (Continental) army |
| privateers | privately owned ships converted to makeshift warships |
| guerrilla warfare | tactics which include using camflage, hit and run, and "Indian Style" frontier warfare |
| unanimous | everyone is 100% in agreement |
| unalienable rights | rights which can't be taken away from you |
| propaganda | giving misleading or distorted information or only telling one side of an argument to help that side of a cause |
| effigy | a likeness of someone which is hung or burned to show anger |
| boycott | refusing to buy something in order to put pressure on the seller to change |
| delegates | representatives to a group or meeting |
| revenue | money collected by the government in taxes |
| mercenaries | hired soldiers from another country |
| reactionary | against nearly all change |
| conservative | accepts very little change |
| moderate | accepts some change |
| liberal | wants a good deal of change |
| radical | wants extreme change |
| NTWR | no taxation without representation |
