The American Revolution Chapter 3 Vocabulary

The ability of people to rule themselves and make their own laws

• self-government

• empire

• Congress

• representative

the original law-making branch of the English government

• Congress

• Parliament

• assembly

• empire

the law-making branch of the American government that is made of the House of Representative and the Senate

• Parliament

• Congress

• assembly

• representative

a person who is chose or elected to speak on the behalf of the other people

• representative

• citizen

• self-government

• empire

a group of representatives who gather to make laws

• assembly

• empire

• citizen

• independence

freedom from the control of a person or group of people

• citizen

• Congress

• representative

• independence