American Revolution Vocabulary

refuse to buy

• boycott

• grievance

• repeal

• impose

individual rights protected by the law

• civil liberties

• freedom

• grievances

• militia

come together for a meeting

• convene

• consent

• ally

• quarter

require a tax to be paid

• impose

• duty

• violate

• convene

British economic policy where the colonies existed for the benefit of England

• mercantilism

• Parliament

• Free Enterprise

• Socialism

against an idea

• opposed

• violate

• boycott

• impose

British requirement for colonists to house British soldiers in their homes

• quarter

• violate

• convene

• endow

break a rule

• violate

• boycott

• quarter

• consent

friend of a country

• ally

• enemy

• foreign

• domestic

military force created from a civilian population

• militia

• redcoats

• surrender

• tax