| A | B |
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| apprentice | a person indentured to serve for another for a certain amount of time in an art or trade |
| artisan | one trained to manual dexterity or skill in trade |
| Bill of Rights | a list of rights and priveliges guarenteed to people |
| Boston Massacre | a fight in 1770 when British troops fired @ colonists throwing trash @ the soldiers |
| Boycott | protest based on refusing to buy certain items or use certain services |
| brigade | a large group of troops |
| commander | an officer commanding an army or a subdivision of an army |
| crucible | pot of material used for melting and calcining a substance that requires a high degree of heat |
| effigies | a crude figure representing a hated person |
| impressment | the act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an est. gov't |
| magna carta | a document constituting a fundemental guarentee of rights and priveliges |
| masons | a skilled worker who builds w/ or similar material |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| minutemen | colonists fighting against british in the american revolution volunteered miliatry service in a minute's notice |
| mother country | the country in which a person was born |
| muskets | a heavy large caliber shoulder firearm |
| parliament | a formal conference for the discussion of public affairs. the lawmaking in GB |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| repeal | to resind by authoritative act |
| sedition | act of treason |
| sons of liberty | a colonial protest group formed to protest against the Stamp Act |
| Tories | american colonists loyal to British crown |
| treason | the offense of attempting to overthrow the gov't of one's country or of assisting its enemies in war |
| Tree of Liberty | the tree that stood for liberty for the sons of liberty; their symbol |
| tyranny | a gov't in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler |
| whigs | an american favoring independence from GB during the american revolution |
