| Term | Definition |
|---|
| tyranny | unjust use of government power |
| repeal | cancelled |
| boycott | to refuse to buy on or more goods from a certain source. An organized refusal by many people. |
| Loyalist | colonist who are Loyal to Britain |
| Patriots | colonist who see themselves as Americans |
| monopoly | complete control |
| democracy | government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by free election |
| republicanism | adherence to or sympathy for a chief of state (president) form of government |
| minutemen | Patriots who were ready in a minute to fight the British |
| Redcoats | British soldiers |
| Electoral College | an indirect popular vote election for the President and Vice President |
| absolute majority | half of the total electoral votes plus one |
| popular vote | actual number of votes cast for Presidential candidates on election day |
| popular sovereignty | allowed voters in a new territory to vote for or against slavery at the time that territory entered the Union as a state |
| secede | leave the Union |
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