American Revolution Vocab Words

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boycott

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refusal to buy something as a form of protest

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Taxation

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Collecting money from citizens to fund government.

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Political revolution

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Changing from one governmental structure to another

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Patriots

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American colonists supporting independence from Great Britain

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Loyalists

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American colonists who did not support independence from Great Britain.

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Civil disobedience

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Refusal to obey laws as protest

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grievance

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a complaint

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unalienable rights

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Rights that cannot be taken away

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mercantilism

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Economic theory: trade generates wealth.