1. Unit 1, Set 1 Vocabulary Review

2. SECONDARY SOURCE
information about an event in history that was created after the event occurred

3. ECONOMIC IMPACT
the effect of an activity on the commerce, finances, employment, property and way of life of a community and its citizens.

4. I’ll be there in a moment’s notice, if they need me!
MINUTEMEN
American colonial militia members ready to fight at a moment’s notice
I’ll be there in a moment’s notice, if they need me!

5. Political Impact
the effect that a gov’t policy and its practices have on a business, community or a citizen’s way of life.

6. SOCIAL IMPACT
the effect of an activity on a community and the well-being of a citizen’s way of life.

7. REPEAL
To do away with; to cancel

8. NAVIGATION ACTS
A series of laws passed by Parliament to ensure that only England benefited from trade with the colonies.
13 colonies
England
Navigation Acts

9. PROTEST
The act of making a strong public expression of disapproval toward something

10. TREATY
An agreement between countries

11. PATRIOT LOYALIST American colonists who fought for independence
American colonists who sided with Britain in the Revolution

12. MERCANTILISM
A theory that a state’s or nation’s power depends on its wealth; to gain wealth/power a country must export more than it imports.

13. PROPAGANDA
Bias information of a misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a specific cause or point of view.

14. MILITIA
a group of citizens trained to fight

15. Massacre
Deliberately and violently kill a MASSIVE number of people

16. PARLIAMENT
The legislative (representative) body of Great Britain.

17. COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE
An organization that used meetings, letters and pamphlets to spread political ideas through the colonies.

18. REDCOATS
British soldiers who fought against colonists in the American Revolution

19. BOYCOTT
To refuse to buy certain goods or use certain services as a form of protest

20. WRITS OF ASSISTANCE
Legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for smuggled goods.

21. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
secret societies formed to fight taxation by the British government

22. ALBANY PLAN OF UNION
Proposal by B. Franklin to create a representative body for the colonies to discuss defense and other issues.

23. EFFIGY
A rag figure representing an unpopular individual

24. PROCLAMATION
a public or official announcement of great importance.

25. ACT
A law

26. LIBERTY
freedom

27. PRIMARY SOURCE
information created, written, or recorded by people who were actually there or directly involved in an event.

28. ALLIANCE
a close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes

29. ENLIGHTENMENT
The Age of Reason; spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.

30. REVENUE
incoming money

31. REPRESENTATION
having a group of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of others.

32. COLONY
an area under the political control of another country, and occupied by settlers from that country

33. GREAT AWAKENING
A religious movement that swept through the colonies affecting social and political life.