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SS CH.5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Revenue (n) | incoming money from taxes or other sources |
| Writ of assistence (n) | court document allowing costumes offesers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods |
| prohibit (v) | to prevent or forbidin |
| Resolution (n) | an office expression of opinion by a group |
| effiggy (n) | a mocking figure repersenting an unpopular individual |
| boycott (v) | to refuse to buy items in order to show dissaprovle or forceaccseptence of one term |
| repeal (v) | to cancel an act or law |
| violate(v) | to disregard or go against |
| rebellion (n) | open defiance of authority |
| propaganda(n) | ideas or info |
| committee of correspondence (n) | an organization that spred political ideas and information through the colonies |
| occupy (v) | to move into and take control of a place especially by force |
| encounter (n) | a sudden often violent clash |
| minuteman (n) | during Revlutanary era civilian sworn to be ready to fight with civilian sworn to be ready to fight with only one minute notice |
| approach (v) | to draw near to somthing |
| loyalist (n) | Amarican colonist who remand loyal to Britan and opposed the war for independence |
| Patriot (n) | American colonists who favored Amarican independence |
| so-called (adj) | known as |
| advocate (n) | supporter |
| reconciliation (n) | settlemant, undersanding |
| renounced (v) | to give up, to abandon |
| animosity(n) | hostility I'll will, hatred |
| infallbly (n) | without fail |
| torrent(n) | fast moving liquid |
| Petiton(n) | a formal request |
| disipene(n) | the ability to falow strict rules and procedures |
| debate (n) | a discussion off apposing points of view |
| Preamble (n) | the introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written |
| Status (n) | rank or place as compared to others |