Road to Independence Vocabulary

rights guaranteed or belonging to a person

• individual rights

• individual responsibilities

• obligations

• individual freedoms

the British legislative body.

• Prime Minister

• Congress

• Parliament

• President

the idea that it is unfair to tax someone without giving them a voice in government

• tax us but don't kill us

• taxing with representation

• taxes are evil

• no taxation without representation

wrote the pamphlet, Common Sense to encourage colonists to support American independence

• Thomas English Muffins

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• Baron de Montesquieu

King of Britain during the revolutionary time period.

• King George I

• King George II

• King Henry VIII

• King George III

A refusal to buy or use goods and services.

• boycott

• parliament

• act

• autocracy

a group of people who settled what is now the United States.

• Germans

• Colonists

• British

• Loyalists

a law made by a governing body.

• tea

• rule

• right

• act

a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.

• Common Sense

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• New York Times

guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. It supported a limited monarchy, a system in which the monarch shares their power with Parliament and the people.

• Common Sense

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights