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American Revolution
Part 1 week 22 & 23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| financial broker | someone who arranges business transactions |
| pamphlet | booklet |
| revolution | a forced change of government |
| sovereign | a supreme ruler |
| tyranny | when a ruler rules with lack of care for their people, exercises right control, and makes unfair demands |
| Continental Army | the army that defended the actions of the colonists and the Continental Congress |
| Council of Pennsylvania | government of the colony of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution |
| parliament | main governing body of the British government |
| democracy | is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state |