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Vocabulary 4:9
Unit 4 Chapter 9 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| colonial militia who would be ready to fight on a minute's notice | minutemen |
| to leave a person, group, or thing and not return | desert |
| a type of miliary action where small groups of combatants make surprise attacks against a larger force | guerrilla warfare |
| to enroll or be enrolled in the armed services | enlist |
| seizing something for public use or forcing someone into public service | impressment |
| the overall positive or negative feeling of a person or group | morale |
| a soldier paid to serve in a foreign military | mercenary |
| to take, seize, or halt someone or something on the way from one place to another | intercept |
| a person who has excellent aim with a gun | sharpshooter |
| a regular payment to a retired person from the company they used to work for | pension |
| spying to gather intelligence (information) on foreign countries, particularly adversaries or opponents | espionage |
| eliminated the British presence from the Mississippi River and the Louisiana territory and gave the Continental Army an important passage for supplies | Battle of Baton Rouge |