American Revolution Vocabulary

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

• Boycott

• Minutemen

• Propaganda

• Loyalist

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

• Loyalist

• Minutemen

• Patriot

• Boycott

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

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Neutral

• Minuteman

Hit and run ambush style of fighting a war

• Sons of Liberty

• Minutemen

• Mercenary

• Guerrilla warfare

A formal request

• Boycott

• Petition

• Writs of Assistance

• Repeal

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

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Sons of Liberty

• Minutemen

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

• Sons of Liberty

• Mercenary

• Minutemen

• Privateer

Paid soldier who serves in the army of a foreign country.

• Privateer

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Mercenary

Backcountry resident of NC who protested the corruption of backcountry officials.

• Patriot

• Minutemen

• Privateer

• Regulator

Ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion.

• Loyalists

• Petition

• Writs of Assistance

• Propaganda