Protests & Rights
A form of organized protest where people refuse to buy goods or engage with a certain group or country
What is a boycott?
To cancel or do away with something, such as a law
What is repeal?
A violent killing of defenseless people.
What is a massacre?
A final decision usually meant to solve a problem or create a course of action.
What is a resolution?
The ability of people in a country to decide their own government.
What is self-determination?
A representative to the legislature in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
What is a burgess?
The act of giving temporary lodging and meals to soldiers.
What is quartering?
A term describing something unbearable.
What is intolerable?
Rights that all people are born with and cannot be taken away by the government.
What are natural rights?
An important public announcement, like declaring a state holiday
What is a proclamation?
The phrase for a legal case decided by a group of one’s fellow citizens.
What is trial by jury?
Spell the word that completes the name of our unit: The American ____________
What is R E V O L U T I O N?
The traditional legal rights all English subjects believed they were guaranteed.
What are the rights of Englishmen?
Money collected to pay for public services like roads and schools.
What are taxes?
A phrase meaning very close to the start of something.
What is on the brink?
Spell the word that completes our unit: The ______________________Revolution
What is A M E R I C A N?