JUSTIN
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- friend, especially in war time
- ally
- to use warships to prevent other ships from entering or leaving a harbor
- blockade
- a group setup in each of the colonies to quickly share information about taxes and other issues by writing letters to groups in other colonies
- committee of correspondence
- a government in which the people take part
- democracy
- a colonist who supported the british monarch and laws
- loyalist
- the killing of people who cannot defend themselves
- massacre
- a member of the massachusets colony militia who could quickly be ready to fight the british
- minutemen
- the part of the british government in which members make laws for the british people
- parliament
- a request for action signed by many people
- petition
- to provide or pay for housing
- quarter
- a colonist who was against british rule
- patriot
- to undo a tax or law
- repeal
- a tax on goods brought into a country
- tariff
- working against one's own government
- treason