Britain and Colonies
To refuse to buy, sell, or use something
What is BOYCOTT?
Another word for liberty or freedom
What is INDEPENDENCE?
To sign up and join the military
What is ENLIST?
A written plan of government
What is a CONSTITUTION?
A long narrow waterway built by humans
What is a CANAL?
A volunteer army
What is a MILITIA?
Colonists who supported England
Soldiers hired to fight in a foreign army
What are MERCENARIES?
A government ruled by the people
What is a DEMOCRACY?
Private roads that charge people a toll
What is a TURNPIKE?
To cancel or take back a law
What is REPEAL?
A group chosen to work on a task
What is a COMMITTEE?
The river George Washington crossed on his way into Trenton
What is the DELAWARE?
Written changes to a document
What are AMENDMENTS?
The study of soil, rocks, and minerals.
What is GEOLOGY?
A person chosen to represent others
What is a DELEGATE?
Colonists who wanted to be free from England and form a new country
What are PATRIOTS?
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War
What is YORKTOWN, VA?
To formally approve
What is RATIFY?
To change something and make it better
What is REFORM?
Group of people who make Great Britain's laws
What is PARLIAMENT?
The crime of trying to remove one's government by force
What is TREASON?
The agreement stating that the USA was a country and giving the US control of all the land east of the Mississippi
The way the legal system protects the rights of people accused of crimes
What is DUE PROCESS?
An official count of a population
What is a CENSUS?