Unit 2 Vocabulary

Question 1

intolerable

Answer 1

unacceptable, cannot be tolerated

Question 2

repeal

Answer 2

to take back or to cancel

Question 3

boycott

Answer 3

to refuse to busy as a form of protest

Question 4

representation

Answer 4

the citizens that are elected to make decisions for, or represent, their fellow citizen

Question 5

unalienable rights

Answer 5

these cannot be taken away or surrendered

Question 6

delegates

Answer 6

synonym for representatives

Question 7

revenue

Answer 7

profits or money collected for taxes

Question 8

colonist

Answer 8

people who settle and live a country

Question 9

13 colonies

Answer 9

original east coast areas settled by Great Britain/ England beginning in 1607 that became the original United States

Question 10

committee of correspondence

Answer 10

organization used to pass around writings about the colonists’ grievances over British policies

Question 11

civil disobedience

Answer 11

non-violent actions taken to protest government policies

Question 12

writs of assistance

Answer 12

legal documents that allowed customs and tax officials to search homes and warehouses looking for smuggled goods

Question 13

acts

Answer 13

laws

Question 14

Parliament

Answer 14

law-making assembly in Great Britain (England)

Question 15

foreign

Answer 15

involving other countries

Question 16

consent of the governed

Answer 16

political idea that people give government its power through the understanding as stated in the Declaration of Independence

Question 17

domestic

Answer 17

having to do with one’s own homeland (US)

Question 18

Continental Congress

Answer 18

group of representatives from the 13 colonies that met to decide how officially to deal with the British policies

Question 19

taxation

Answer 19

government process of charging a fee on goods, products, peoples and/or activities

Question 20

Lexington and Concord

Answer 20

1st battle of the American Revolution: scene of Paul Revere’s ride to warn colonial militia (minutemen) about the arrival of British troops in April 1775

Question 21

mercenaries

Answer 21

fighting force that is composed of non-professional fighters

Question 22

grievances

Answer 22

complaints

Question 23

mercantilism

Answer 23

British economic policy in which the American colonies provided raw materials to England for manufacture and the colonies then bought the manufactured goods back from Great Britain; total economic control of a colony

Question 24

proclamation

Answer 24

announcement

Question 25

petition

Answer 25

(verb) to formally request or ask (noun) document used for formally requesting or asking

Question 26

tyranny

Answer 26

cruel or unfair control over other people

Question 27

The Great Awakening

Answer 27

social trend in the 1700s that spread stronger religious and political ideas throughout the colonies

Question 28

revolution

Answer 28

time when people change a ruler or political system often by using force or violence

Question 29

Enlightenment

Answer 29

social trend in the 1700s that supported the use of knowledge, reason, and science to make sense of the world

Question 30

Declaration of Independence

Answer 30

document that announced that the 13 colonies where separating from Great Britain and forming a new nations