Unit 7 Vocabulary

A formal request made of a government by the citizens

• Petition

• Bill of Rights

• infantry

• calvary

A list of basic rights that a government cannot take away from its people

• siege

• Bill of Rights

• calvary

• infantry

A situation in which soldiers or police officers surround a city, building, etc., in order to try to take control of it.

• Siege

• petition

• ad interim

• infantry

A synonym for ad interim; temporary

• provisional

• siege

• calvary

• infantry

Civilians; people not involved in fighting a battle but who are caught in the area where the fighting is taking place.

• infantry

• criminals

• noncombatants

• calvary

Foot soldiers; soldiers who fight on foot

• Infantry

• bill of rights

• Battle of the Alamo

• casualties

Groups of soldiers who fight on horseback

• siege

• petition

• Cavalry

• runaway scrape

People who are killed, captured, wounded or who have gone missing during battle.

• casualties

• runaway scrape

• bill of rights

• petition

Temporary

• Ad interim

• infantry

• cavalry

• bill of rights

The idea that the power to create or change the government of a country comes from the people.

• Popular sovereignty

• siege

• queen

• king