8th 2nd 9wks Vocab (Midterm)

a preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction - the first part of the Declaration of Independence.

• Grievances

• Preamble

• Natural Rights

a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions - as in the Sugar Act and Tea Act

• Taxes

• Mercantilism

• Preamble

an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people - what happened in Boston resulting in 5 deaths including Crispus Attucks.

• Boston Team Party

• French and Indian War

• Boston Massacre

an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving

• Grievances

• Blockade

• Preamble

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest - refusing to do business or buy a product

• Boycott

• Blockade

• Declaration of Independence

relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies (same word family)

• Settler

• Mother Country

• Colonial

a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations - as with France helping the Colonies.

• Settlers

• Colonial

• Alliance

a rejected plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies July 10, 1754. The plan was suggested by Benjamin Franklin

• Albany Plan of Union

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

In Britain,  the highest legislature

• Congress

• Senate

• Parliament

a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area - examples are the Pilgrims and first people to Jamestown. Later would be the people who were first to move west in America.

• Settlers

• Colonists

• Americans