Ch 8 Vocab- American Revolutionary War

freedom from being ruled by someone else

• rights

• treason

• independence

• surrender

a statement that declares, or announces an idea

• strategy

• surrender

• retreating

• declaration

freedoms that are protected by a government's laws

• rights

• traitor

• strategy

• surrender

the crime of fighting against one's own government

• treason

• loyalist

• patriot

• inflation

someone who was still loyal to the king

• neutral

• patriot

• traitor

• loyalist

American colonist who favored American independence

• loyalist

• patriot

• neutral

• traitor

not taking sides

• surrencer

• neutral

• mercenary

• retreat

a rise in the prices of goods

• victory

• strategy

• inflation

• mobilize

to move away from the enemy

• retreat

• mobilize

• surrender

• victory

a soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army

• mercenary

• ordinary citizens

• patriot

• loyalist