Creating a Nation Vocabulary

To refuse to participate in or buy something until certain conditions are met

• Boycott

• Petition

• Propaganda

• Privateer

A colonist who supported independence from England during the American Revolution period

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Mercenary

• Privateer

A colonist who sided with the British during the American Revolution period

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Mercenary

• Privateer

Hit and run ambush style of fighting a war

• Guerilla Warfare

• Regulator

• Propaganda

• Minutemen

A formal request

• Petition

• Boycott

• Propaganda

• Regulator

Groups of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight in a minute’s notice

• Minutemen

• Regulator

• Mercenary

• Privateer

A privately owned ship that has been granted permission by a wartime government to attack enemy ships

• Privateer

• Regulator

• Minutemen

• Propaganda

Paid soldier who serves in the army of a foreign country

• Mercenary

• Regulator

• Patriot

• Minutemen

Backcountry resident of NC who protested the corruption of backcountry officials

• Regulator

• Mercenary

• Patriot

• Loyalist

Ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion

• Propaganda

• Guerilla Warfare

• Boycott

• Petition