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Spirit o Indepedence
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| revenue | incoming money from taxes or other sourses |
| writ of assistence | court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods |
| prohibit | to prevent or forbid |
| resolution | an official expression of opinion by a group |
| effigy | a mocking figure representing an unpopular indivigual |
| boucott | to refuse to buy items in order to show dissaproval or forse accptance of ones terms |
| repeal | to cancel an act or a law |
| violate | to disregard or go against |
| rebellion | open defiance of authority |
| propoganda | ideas or information internally spread to harm or help a cause |
| committee of correspondence | an oranization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies |
| occupy | to move into and take controll of a place especially by forse |
| encounter | a sudden, often violent crash |
| minuteman | during Revolutionary era, cuvilian sworn to be ready to fight with only one minuet's notice |
| approach | to draw near something |
| loyalist | American colonist who supports the british and opposed to the war of independence |
| patriot | American colonists who favored American independence |
| so-called | known as |
| advocate | supporter |
| reconciliation | settlement, undersanding |
| renounce | to give up, to abandon |
| animosity | hostility, I'll will, hatred |
| infallability | without fail |
| torrent | fast-moving liquid |
| petition | a formal request |
| discipline | the ability to fallow strict rules and procedures |
| debate | a discussion of opposing points of view |
| preamble | the introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written |
| status | rank or place as compared to others |