Vocabulary 2. Republic- a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives 3. Ordinance- a law 4. Depreciate- to fall in value

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revenue

incoming money

Reformation

A 16th century religious movement

Headright

A 50-acre

joinstock company

A company

Charter

A document

Frigate

A fast

Protestanism

A form of Christianity

Cabinet

A group of advisers to the president.

mercenary

A hired soldier

Constitution

A list

Cotton Gin

A machine

Blockade

A measure

effigy

A mocking

alien

A person

Debtor

A person or country

Embargo

A prohibition

Northwest Passage

A sea

Compromise

A settlement

tenant farmer

A settler

Nationalism

A strong

Sedition

Activities

Loyalists

American colonist

Patriot

American colonist who favored American independence

Burguess

An elected representative

Resolution

An official

Committees of Correspondence

An organization

bond

Certificate

War Hawks

Congressmen

Wrist of assistance

Court document

partisan

Firmly

Propaganda

Ideas

Indetured Servant

Laborer

Patron

Landowner

tribute

Money paid for protection

Pacifist

People opposed

Privateer

Privately

Impressment

Seizing people

Pilgrim

Someone who travels

Precedent

Something

customs duty

Taxes

Tolerance

The ability

states' rights

The idea

Jurisdiction

The power

neutral rights

The privilege

repeal

To cancel

desert

To leave

persecute

To mistreat

Inflation

When it takes more

armada

a fleet of warships

Petition

a formal request

Republic-

a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives

Depression- 4. Compromise- a settlement of a dispute by each party giving up some

a period

canal

an artificial waterway

Preamble

an introduction

Minutemen

civilian soldiers

Proportional

corresponding

ordinance

law

Capital

money for investment

Rebellion

open defiance of authority

interchangeable parts

parts of a machine that are identical

Boycott

refuse to buy

Turnpike

road on which tolls are collected

lock

separate compartment

Patent

sole legal right to an invention and its profits

Manumission-

the freeing

Census

the official count of a population

Ratify

to approve

ambush

to attack from a place of hiding

dissent

to disagree

Recruit

to enlist in the military

Depreciate-

to fall in value

Nullify

to legally overturn

Secede

to withdraw


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