Causes of the American Revolutionary War vocabulary

Money that people pay their government in return for services

• repeal

• unjust

• tax

• boycott

cruel ruler; what colonists called King George III.

• representative

• protest

• ally

• tyrant

A group of representatives who meet to discuss a meeting.

• Congress

• unjust

• petition

• protest

to cancel or remove it

• boycott

• unjust

• repeal

• treason

A person chosen to express the thoughts and opinions of a larger group.

• Congress

• representative

• import

• tyrant

To protest refusing to buy, sell, or use certain goods.

• protest

• petition

• boycott

• ally

not fair or right

• unjust

• ally

• repeal

• treason

betraying one's country

• boycott

• treason

• ally

• unjust

A formal written request

• unjust

• repeal

• petition

• representative

to bring goods into a country from another country

• import

• tax

• boycott

• repeal