U.S. History Chapter 4 study aid:The War for Independence

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• American colonist who supported the war for independence

PATRIOT

• American colonist who supported the war for independence

• general search warrants that enabled customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling

WRITS OF ASSISTANCE

• general search warrants that enabled customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling

• the loss of value of money

INFLATION

• the loss of value of money

• unit of men trained to stand ready at a minutes notice in order to fight

MINUTEMEN

• unit of men trained to stand ready at a minutes notice in order to fight

• voluntary freeing of enslaved persons

MANUMISSION

• voluntary freeing of enslaved persons

• kind of fighting where combatants use ambushes and hide amongst trees and walls

GUERRILLA WARFARE

• kind of fighting where combatants use ambushes and hide amongst trees and walls

• American colonist who backed Britain

LOYALIST

• American colonist who backed Britain

• committee formed to unify and communicate with the other colonies

COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE

• committee formed to unify and communicate with the other colonies

• freedom from enslavement

EMANCIPATION

• freedom from enslavement

• licenses of private ship owners authorizing them to attack foreign ships

LETTERS OF MARQUE

• licenses of private ship owners authorizing them to attack foreign ships

• taxes on imports & exports

Customs duty

• taxes on imports & exports

• form of government where power resides with a body of citizens entitled to vote, and electing representatives

REPUBLIC

• form of government where power resides with a body of citizens entitled to vote, and electing representatives