Social Studies Unit 4 Vocab

process of collecting money from citizens in order to fund government expenses

• loyalists

• taxation

• leader

• boycott

changing from one governmental structure to another

• minutemen

• independence

• political revolution

• grievance

American colonists who supported independence from Great Britain

• patriots

• militia

• mercenaries

• taxation

American colonists who did not support independence from Great Britain

• boycott

• political revolution

• leader

• loyalists

a complaint

• minutemen

• militia

• grievance

• independence

to refuse to buy goods

• mercanaries

• boycott

• taxation

• patriots

a military force of volunteers

• militia

• leader

• loyalists

• political revolution

soldiers who are paid to fight for a country they are not from

• boycott

• taxation

• militia

• mercenaries

not being controlled or ruled by another

• grievance

• independence

• patriot

• leader

someone whom other people will follow

• mercenaries

• loyalists

• leader

• minutemen