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Unit 5 vocab words
Term | Definition |
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Revenue | incoming money from taxes or other sources |
Writ of assistance | court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled gooods |
Resolution | an official expression of opinion by a group |
Effigy | a moking figure representing an unpopular individual |
Boycott | to refuse to buy items in order to show dissaproval of force |
Repeal | to cancel a act or law |
Rebellion | open defiance of authority |
Propaganda | ideas or information |
Committee of correspondence | an organization that spread political ideas and informtion through colnies |
Minuteman | during the revolutionary era civillan sword to be there within a minute |
Loyalist | american colonist who stayed lowyal to the british |
Patriot | american colonist who favor independence |
Petition | a formal request |
Preamble | the introdoction to a formal docement |