history vocab

refusing to buy goods from a certain country

• Blockade

• Boycott

• Loyalists

• Patriots

governments created in each colony before the revolution to organize resistance against the British.

Militia military force made up of ordinary citizens.

• Blockade

• Repeal

• Boycott

• Committee of Correspondence

to cancel an act or law.

• Repeal

• Civil Disobedience

• Unalienable Rights

• Writs of Assistance

legal document that allowed officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled.

• ?

• Writs of Assistance

• Blockade

• Loyalists

using ships to prevent goods from leaving a harbor.

• Militia

• Civil Disobedience

• Blockade

• ?

military force made up of ordinary citizens.

• Militia

• American revolution

• Boycott

• :)

American colonists who were determined to gain independence from the British.

• Committee of Correspondence

• Patriots

• Maryland

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American colonists who stayed loyal to Great Britain.

• Loyalists

• Indians

• Cilvil war

• Unalienable Rights

the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing and nonpayment of taxes.

• Boycott

• Repeal

• Civil Disobedience

• Monkey

rights that cannot or should not be taken away by a government because they are given by God; examples: "life, liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness",

• Unalienable Rights

• Committee of Correspondence

• Repeal

• Boycott