BCA: 6th Grade: Chapter 8: Vocabulary

to stop buying or using something as a form of protest

• support
• embrace
• endorse
• boycott

is a tax on exports and imports

• subsidy
• embargo
• duty

• quota

a region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area

• center
• backyard
• interior
• frontier

a complaint, especially on due to unfair treatment

• approval
• grievance
• celebration
• compliment

freedom from outside control or restrictions

• Liberty

• Captivity
• Confinement
• Imprisonment

a colonist who supported Great Britain's right to rule (loyal to the King)

• Patriot
• Traitor
• Rebel
• Loyalist

someone who suffers, or even dies, for their beliefs

• villain
• martyr
• hero
• coward

a system of rights or truths that exist beyond governmental laws are believed to be common to all humans

• unnatural law

• artificial law

• supernatural law

• natural law

a short publication about a particular topic

• pamphlet
• encyclopedia
• dictionary
• novel

a colonist who supported independence from Great Britain

• Patriot
• Loyalist
• Monarchist
• Rebel