Chapter 6 Vocabulary Review

A measure that keeps ships from leaving or entering a harbor.

• Privateer

• Ambush

• Blockade

• Inflation

To enlist in the military.

• Mercenary

• Recruit

• Privateer

• Ratify

To approve officially

• Siege

• Inflation

• Desert

• Ratify

Takes more and more money to buy the same amount of goods

• Deflation

• Inflation

• Economy

• Stock Market

Piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.

• Peninsula

• Lake

• Gulf

• Siege

Hired soldier

• Privateer

• Recruit

• Mercenary

• Militia

Privately owned ship outfitted with weapons.

• Caraval

• Skipper

• Blockade Runner

• Privateer

An attack in which the attacker hides and surprises the enemy

• Ambush

• Blockade

• Siege

• Hide and Seek

An attempt to force surrender by blocking the movement of people and goods into or out of a place.

• Ambush

• Recruit

• Desert

• Siege

To leave a place without permission.

• Recruit

• Privateer

• Desert

• Dessert