The causes of the american revolution
vocabulary crossword puzzle
Directions: Use the clues given below to think of the write word/words to fill into the crossword puzzle. Good Luck!
ACROSS
1. Secret organization of American colonists formed initially to protest the Stamp Act. They threw the crates of tea overboard during the Boston Tea Party
5. Being able to self-govern your own country.
7. The English colonies founded along the Atlantic coast of America
9. A Patriot and American soldier whose main contribution was in writing. His pamphlets, including Common Sense and The Crisis, encouraged the American population to fight for the Revolutionary cause.
12. He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
13. American soldiers who got their name because they could be ready to right "at a minute's notice."
15. A group of 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all except Georgia) who met in Philadelphia in September of 1774 to act together in response to the Intolerable Acts. They met in secret because they didn't want Great Britain to know that they were united
16. American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773.
17. The American colonists who wanted to break away from England and form a new country.
18. The state of being free; freedom.
19. King of Great Britain from 1760 to 1820. Under his guidance, Britain won the French and Indian War but lost the Revolutionary War. 20Met in 1775, when the Revolutionary war had started, creating the Continental Army and naming George Washington as commander-in-chief
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2. The two battles where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired
3. He fought in the French and Indian War and was the commanding officer of the victorious American forces in the Revolutionary War. Eventually became the first President of the United States
4. Famous silversmith who rode through the countryside to warn the American colonists that the British were coming
6. Document declaring the 13 American Colonies independent from Great Britain. Written by Thomas Jefferson and declared in effect by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776
8. A leader of the American Revolution.
10. In 1765, the British Parliament imposed a law that ever single piece of printed paper (newspaper, pamphlet, legal document, etc) must have a British Stamp on it. This stamp cost money and was a tax on paper.
11. A colonist during the American revolutionary period who supported the British and were loyal to England. Also called Tories.
14. Nickname for the British soldiers because of their bright, red uniforms.
ACROSS
1. Secret organization of American colonists formed initially to protest the Stamp Act. They threw the crates of tea overboard during the Boston Tea Party
5. Being able to self-govern your own country.
7. The English colonies founded along the Atlantic coast of America
9. A Patriot and American soldier whose main contribution was in writing. His pamphlets, including Common Sense and The Crisis, encouraged the American population to fight for the Revolutionary cause.
12. He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
13. American soldiers who got their name because they could be ready to right "at a minute's notice."
15. A group of 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all except Georgia) who met in Philadelphia in September of 1774 to act together in response to the Intolerable Acts. They met in secret because they didn't want Great Britain to know that they were united
16. American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773.
17. The American colonists who wanted to break away from England and form a new country.
18. The state of being free; freedom.
19. King of Great Britain from 1760 to 1820. Under his guidance, Britain won the French and Indian War but lost the Revolutionary War. 20Met in 1775, when the Revolutionary war had started, creating the Continental Army and naming George Washington as commander-in-chief
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2. The two battles where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired
3. He fought in the French and Indian War and was the commanding officer of the victorious American forces in the Revolutionary War. Eventually became the first President of the United States
4. Famous silversmith who rode through the countryside to warn the American colonists that the British were coming
6. Document declaring the 13 American Colonies independent from Great Britain. Written by Thomas Jefferson and declared in effect by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776
8. A leader of the American Revolution.
10. In 1765, the British Parliament imposed a law that ever single piece of printed paper (newspaper, pamphlet, legal document, etc) must have a British Stamp on it. This stamp cost money and was a tax on paper.
11. A colonist during the American revolutionary period who supported the British and were loyal to England. Also called Tories.
14. Nickname for the British soldiers because of their bright, red uniforms.