Independence Vocabulary Review

Legislature consisting of two parts or houses

An agreement, or contract among a group of people.

A king or queen

The British Legislature

A group of individuals or state governments

to change

Written document granting land and the authority to set up a colonial government

A detailed written plan for government

A group of people in one place ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

Independent voluntary groups that organized ways to resist the British

A system of law based on Precedent and customs

Self-reliance and freedom from outside control

The refusal to purchase certain goods

The theory that a country should sell more goods than it buys.

A representative to a meeting

To cancel a law

A ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case.

to vote approval of

Search warrants that allowed British naval officers to board colonial ships

A group of people that makes laws