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