Unit 2 Vocabulary Quizz

Militia

• an army made up of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in an emergency

• the unjust use of government power

• an army of paid soldiers

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Tyranny

• to take back or cancel a law

• a formal, written request made to an official person or organization

• the unjust use of government power

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Repeal

• to refuse to buy one or more goods from a certain source

• to take back or cancel a law

• to climb down a mountain

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Boycott

• freedom from control by another government or country

• to ban guns and ammunition

• to refuse to buy one or more goods from a certain source

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Independence

• a holiday

• a formal written request made to an official person or organization

• freedom from control by another country

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Petition

• a formal, written request made to an official person or organization

• a small cannon

• to refuse to buy one or more goods from a certain source

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Common Sense

• the document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation

• a pamphlet published in 1776 by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American colonists to support independence

• a sixth sense

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Declaration of Independence

• a movie

• a pamphlet published in 1776 by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American colonists to support independence

• that document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule

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natural rights

• freedom from control by another government or country

• rights of animals to not be hunted

• rights common to everyone as opposed to those given by law

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American Revolution

• the struggle of the colonies in North American to gain their independence from Great Britain

• an overall plan, such as for winning a war

• when America changed to the United States

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