WIS Social Studies Unit 3 Vocabulary

a law

• act

• boycott

• massacre

• import

to protest by refusing to use or buy a good or service

• massacre

• import

• export

• boycott

the lawmaking part of the British government, similar to the Congress in the United States

• Second Continental Congress

• Parliment

• First Continental Congress

• delegates

people who represent others at a convention or conference

• traitor

• Loyalist

• delegates

• Patriot

the murder of several or many people who cannot defend themselves

• massacre

• protest

• militia

• enlist

the meeting of delegates from 12 colonies, held to present complaints to King George III to set up a boycott of British goods and to arrange a second meeting if necessary

• treaty

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Congress

to bring into a country, expecially for sale

• sell

• export

• import

• market

official announcement

• repeal

• shout out

• protest

• proclamation

being required to pay taxes by a government without having a representative in the government

• tactic

• taxation without representation

• protest

• treaty

an action that shows disapproval or objection to something

• protest

• repeal

• turning point

• act