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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| revenue | incoming money from taxes or other sources |
| writ of assitance | court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search |
| resolution | an official expression of opinion by a group |
| effigy | a mocking figure representing an unpopular indiviual |
| boycott | to refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of ones team |
| repeal | to cancel an act or law |
| rebellion | open defiance or authority |
| propaganda | ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause |
| committee of correspondence | an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies |
| minuteman | during revolutionairy era civillin sworn to be redy to fight with only one mintes notice |
| loyalist | american colonsts who remained loyal to britain and opposed wr for independence |
| patriot | american colonists who favored american independence |
| petiton | a formal request |
| preamble | the introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written |