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Chapter 7 vocab quiz
social stuides
Term | Definition |
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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. |