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Chapter 7 vocab quiz
social stuides
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mercenary | a hired soilder |
| Transfer | to move |
| Recruit | to enlist in the military |
| Previous | earlier |
| Aid | to help |
| Desert | to leave without permission or intent to come back |
| Inflation | when it takes more and more money to buy the same amount of goods |
| Issue | a subject that people have different views about |
| Blockage | a measure to keep ships from entering or leaving a harbor |
| Privateer | a privately owned ship outfitted with weapons |
| Impact | an effect |
| Sustain | to suffer or experience |
| Strategy | a plan of action |
| Siege | an attempt to force surrender by blocking the movement of people or goods into or out of a place |
| Pursue | to proceed with |
| Ratify | to approve officially |
| Ambush | an attack in which the attacker hides and surprises the enemy |
| James Armistead | James Armistead was an enslaved African American, best known for his work as a spy during the American Revolution. |
| Haym Salmo | Businessman and broker Haym Salomon was responsible for raising most of the money needed to finance the American Revolution and later to save the new nation from collapse |
| Marqure Lafayette | Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette fought in the American Revolutionary War and helped shape France's political structure before and after the French Revolution. |
| Wentworth Chssworth | Wentworth Cheswell was an American assessor, auditor, Justice of the Peace, teacher and Revolutionary War veteran in Newmarket, New Hampshire. |