Chapter 5 vocabulary

What is a militia?

• A regular army

• A force made up of civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army

• A group of mercenaries

• A naval fleet

What is an alliance?

• A disagreement between countries

• A trade agreement

• An agreement between countries to help each other against other countries

• A peace treaty

What does it mean to cede?

• To conquer land

• To cultivate land

• To surrender land or territory

• To explore new territory

What is a duty or tariff?

• A tax on items shipped into a country from another country

• A tax on local goods

• A tax on services

• A tax on luxury items

What is a boycott?

• A campaign to promote products

• An organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products

• A marketing strategy

• A sales event

What is a petition?

• A verbal request to a government

• A written request to a government

• A public protest

• A legal document

What are Writs of Assistance?

• Court orders that allowed officials to make searches without saying for what they were searching

• Legal documents for property ownership

• Orders for military assistance

• Trade agreements

What is a monopoly?

• Shared control of a market

• Total control of a market for a certain product

• A competitive market

• A free market

What does it mean to repeal?

• To introduce a new law

• To enforce a law

• To officially end a law

• To amend a law

Who were minutemen?

• Regular army soldiers

• Citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice

• Naval officers

• Foreign mercenaries