Toward Independence - Vocabulary

A government or controlling power has...

• rights

• authority

• tyranny

• boycott

To refuse to buy one or more goods from a particular source.

• authority

• militia

• slavery

• boycott

A small army made up of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in an emergency

• marines

• redcoats

• militia

• lobsterbacks

When a law is canceled or taken back, it has been...

• repealed

• approved

• ratified

• tyranny

To place limits on or control something

• repealed

• restricted

• grounded

• militia

To continue to keep

• retain

• dispose

• tyranny

• boycott

An unjust, unfair, and abusive use of government power.

• militia

• brutality

• tyranny

• impeach

Breaking an established rule or law is a...

• authority

• democracy

• militia

• violation

Colonists who felt loyalty to Great Britain

• Loyalists

• Federalists

• Anti-federalists

• Rebels

The people of the 13 colonies were citizens of...

• Great Britain (England)

• The United States of America

• France

• Spain