Key Revolutionary War Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 60591)


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areas that have been settled by people from another country and are controlled by that country
a) colonies
b) colonist
c) ferried
d) memoir

a person who lives in a colony or helps create a colony
a) colonist
b) slaves
c) native peoples
d) Loyalist

carried from one place to another in a vehicle (such as a boat)
a) regiment
b) ferried
c) enslaved
d) territory

a piece of writing in which a person describes his or her past experiences
a) wilderness
b) musket
c) memoir
d) revolution

a type of long gun used by soldiers from the 1500s to the 1800s
a) historian
b) regiment
c) militia
d) musket

a military unit made up of two or more large groups of soldiers
a) territory
b) slaves
c) enslaved
d) regiment

people who are owned by other people and forced to work for them without pay
a) colonist
b) native peoples
c) slaves
d) militia

forced to be a slave
a) ferried
b) enslaved
c) Loyalist
d) historian

a large area of land
a) territory
b) wilderness
c) regiment
d) Declaration of Independence

a wild and natural area in which few people live, such as forest
a) territory
b) wilderness
c) regiment
d) Declaration of Independence

a drastic change in the way something is done
a) militia
b) independent
c) revolution
d) ferried

a document declaring the freedom of the 13 American colonies from British rule and adopted on July 4, 1776
a) Loyalist
b) independent
c) Declaration of Independence
d) memoir

not controlled by other people or things
a) historian
b) colonists
c) enslaved
d) independent

a group of people who are trained to fight but are not official soldiers
a) militia
b) historian
c) slaves
d) native peoples

a person who studies or writes about history
a) Loyalist
b) historian
c) slaves
d) native peoples

during the time of the Revolutionary War, an American who was loyal to the king and did not want the 13 colonies to separate from Great Britain
a) historian
b) colonist
c) native peoples
d) Loyalist

the first people to live in an area, before the arrival of settlers or colonists
a) historian
b) slaves
c) native peoples
d) colonists

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