American Revolution Vocabulary

Law making body in Britain

• Congress

• Alliance

• Parliament

• Delegate

A law that is made by a governing body

• Proclamation

• Act

• Alliance

• Grievance

An official government announcement

• Proclamation

• Act

• Boycott

• Alliance

Economic theory based on government control of trade that serves the mother country.

• Tariff

• Revenue

• Treaty

• Mercantilism

A relationship in which people or countries agree to work together for their benefit

• treaty

• alliance

• congress

• militia

To stop buying or using goods and services as a form of protest

• alliance

• civil disobediance

• boycott

• skirmish

The refusal to follow particular laws considered unjust

• boycott

• tariff

• act

• civil disobedience

Group of people getting together for a purpose

• congress

• parliament

• boycott

• alliance

A representative of a conference or convention

• loyalist

• patriot

• delegate

• seige

Letters or other means of communication

• tariff

• proclamation

• correspondence

• seige