Unit 1 - Revolutionary War Vocabulary

Mercenaries

Paid professional soldiers

Patriots

American

colonists who
believed the

colonies had the
right to govern

themselves.

Loyalists

American

colonists who

were loyal to the

British

Government.

Siege

Surrounding
and attacking
a place to cut

it off from

help or

supplies.

Multiple Choice

American colonists who were loyal to the British Government

• Sieges

• Loyalist

• Patriots

• Mercenaries

Multiple Choice

________ or Yorktown, joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender.

• Siege

• Loyalist

• Mercenary

• Patriot

Casualties

Dead or wounded

Taxation

Act of taxing, the system that the government uses to raise money.

Treaty

A formal
agreement
between
nations.

Enlistment

To sign up (a person)
for duty in the army,
navy, air force, etc.

Protest

To speak out

against

something

that is unfair.

Boycott

Refuse to

buy or
trade

products such as

tea or
paper.

Representation

Delegates are

people who

represent us in
Congress (The

House of

Representatives

and Senate)

Independence

Freedom

from

control by

another

government
or country.

Continental Army

Made up of

troops from all
13 colonies.
The colonial
army during

the

Revolutionary

War.

Weaponry

Collection of weapons

Musket Bayonet Artillery

Ally

A nation that
joins another

nation

in some common

effort,

such as winning

a war.

Militia

Minutemen

Guerrilla Warfare

Small group

of people
trained to

fight

(Local -
town,

community)

A colonial
militiamen

who promised
to be ready to

fight at one

minute’s

notice

Soldiers who

operate

on their own and

not part of a
regular army