Trading Places
To bring in products from an outside source such as a foreign country for sale or trade.
What is Import
The unjust or cruel use of power
What is Oppression
The part of the government that makes laws
What is Legislature?
A time span of 10 years
What is a Decade?
A person who takes a journey for a religious purposes.
What is a Pilgrim?
To ship out products to an outside source such as a foreign country for trade or sale.
What is Export
Publishing of false statements that unjustly damage a person's reputation
What is Libel.
A group of individual states that unite for a common purpose
What is confederation?
The time frame of 100 years
What is a century?
A document issued by a government or king that grants specific rights to a person or company
What is a Charter?
A tax on imported goods
What is Tariff
Organized campaign to refuse to buy or use certain goods and services.
What is Boycott?
An assembly of citizens that decide local issues, also known today as city council or school committee meetings.
What are Town Meetings?
A time span of 1000 years
What is a millennium?
A formal written request to someone in authority that is signed by a group of people.
What is a Petition?
An agreement between countries or people to cooperate with each other which benefits them both
What is an Alliance
The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime, constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is Habeas Corpus?
Form of government in which citizens elect people to make laws for them.
What is Representative Government?
Money owed that needs to be paid back
What is Debt?
Usually done by a navy, the act of preventing people and products from entering or leaving an area.
What is a blockade?
Three-way colonial trade route between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa
What is Triangular Trade
A coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of foundations of life of national, religious, or ethnic groups with the aim of annihilating the group themselves.
What is Genocide?
Freedoms people have simply because they are human beings including the rights to life, liberty and property.
What are Natural Rights?
Policy or idea that colonies only exist to enrich the home/"parent" country
What is Merchantilism?
A citizen army of non-professional, part-time soldiers. During the American Revolution the were often called "minute men" because they'd be ready to fight at a moments notice. Today in the US they are known as the National Guard
What is Militia?