Chapter 5
Revenue - incoming money
Writs of assistance - legal documents that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for smuggled goods
Resolution - a formal expression of opinion
Effigy - rag figures of tax collectors
Boycott - to refuse to do something
Nonimportation - agreements saying that no goods would be imported from Great Britain
Repeal - cancel
Propaganda - information designed to influence opinion
Commitee of correspondence - an organzation used in protests
Militia - a group of civilian soldiers
Minutemen - companys of militia, who claimed that they would fight in a minutes notice
Loyalist - people who chose to stat loyal to Britain
Patriot - people who wanted independance from Britain
Petition - a formal request
Preamble - introduction
Chapter 6
Patriot - people who wanted independance from Britain
Neutral - taking neither side to something
Loyalists - people who stayed loyal to Britain
Mercenaries - people who hired soldiers
Recruit - to enlist
Deserters - soldiers who ran away
Deserted - left without permission
Inflation - rise of cost of goods
Blockade - a barrier
Privateers - privately owned ships with wepons
Guerilla Warfare - hit and run tecnique of warfare
Ratify - approve
Ambush - surprise attack
Nathan Hale: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
Richard Henry Lee: "...That these United colonies are, and of right, ought to be free, and independant states...and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved"
Thomas Jefferson: "The goal of the Declration of Independance is to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent...Neither aiming at origiality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any peticular and previous writing, it is intended to be an expression of the American Mind"
Abigail Adams: (In a letter to John Adams) "...remember that all men would be tyrants if they could. If peticular care and attention are not paid to the ladies, we are determined to forment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
Thomas Jefferson: (From the Decloration of Independance) "...We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creater with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Thomas Paine: "These are the times that test mens souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country"
