American Revolution Vocabulary

to cancel a law

• repeal

• propaganda

• petition

• recruit

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

• repeal

• propaganda

• recruit

• petition

A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies

• patriots

• loyalists

• militia

• redcoats

a formal request for government action

• repeal

• propaganda

• recruit

• petition

Colonists who wanted independence from Britain

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Redcoats

• militia

hired soldiers

• Patriots

• mercenaries

• militia

• Loyalists

to enlist in the military

• propaganda

• petition

• recruit

• repeal

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region

• ambush

• alliance

• repeal

• blockade

private ships hired by a country to attack its enemies

• privateers

• mercenaries

• Patriots

• Redcoats

type of fighting in which soldiers use swift hit-and-run attacks against the enemy

• blockade

• guerilla warfare

• ambush

• alliance