Unit 2 Vocab Quiz Review

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

• militia

• tyranny

• boycott

• mob

the unjust use of government power. A ruler who uses power in this way is called a....

• repeal

• minutemen

• tyranny

• delegates

to take back, or to cancel, a law

• boycott

• act

• proclamation

• repeal

to refuse to buy one or more good from a certain source

• boycott

• repeal

• parliament

• Boston massacre

freedom from control by another government or country

• petition

• independence

• declaration

• principals

a formal, written request made to an official person or organization

• pamphlet

• common sense

• law

• petition

a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American colonists to support independence

• Tea Act

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• fundamental rights

the document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule

• natural rights

• Olive Branch Petition

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law

• slavery

• born rights

• amendment

• natural rights

the struggle of the colonies in North America to gain their independence from Great Britain

• American Revolution

• Civil War

• French and Indian War

• World War 2