Ch. 9: The action of shutting down a port/road to prevent people or supplies from traveling areas.
Blockade
Ch. 10: The right to vote
Suffrage
Ch 3: A person who takes a religious journey
Pilgrim
Ch 7: A document stating the rules for a government
Constitution
Ch. 15: A general rise in prices
Inflation
Ch. 13: An attack that surrounds a city or fort
Siege
Annex
Ch. 15: Required military service
Draft
Ch 6: A formal complaint
Grievance
ch. 17: A surface layer of earth with the grass roots tangled in the soil.
Sod
Ch 6: Armed civilian ships that had government permission to attack enemies
Privateers
Ch. 9: The French for "term for "let alone", meaning the government should not interfere with the economy.
Laissez faire
Ch. 18: Writers who try to show life as it is
Realists
Ch. 7: To approve/consent to something to make it valid
Ratify
Ch. 9: a long and carefully organized journey
Expedition
Ch. 15: A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
Habeas Corpus
Ch. 3: A form of government where voters elect people to make laws/decisions for them
Representative government
Ch. 12: A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
Prohibition
Ch 6: An introduction
Preamble
Ch 18: A building divided into many small apartments
Tenements
Ch 2: A system that stated colonies were there to make their home countries more powerful and wealthy
Mercantilism
Ch 16: A group being pardoned (forgiven)
Amnesty
Ch. 8: An activity designed to overthrow government
Sedition
Ch. 10: A meeting of members of a political party
Caucus
Ch. 17: Groups of farmers who met for lectures, sewing bees, and other events
Granges