American Revolution Module 3 Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. small hand-picked New-England elite force of colonists
  2. 8. a treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War
  3. 10. meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and its associated Revolutionary War
  4. 12. taxed newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, playing cards, etc.
  5. 13. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism"
  6. 15. freedom limited by the need for order in society
  7. 16. all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain "inalienable" _________
  8. 17. American military officer, founding father, and 1st American President
  9. 18. American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States
  10. 20. a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
  11. 23. series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
  12. 24. a confrontation in Boston in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of a few hundred who were harassing them
  13. 26. government was created through the consent of the people to be ruled by the majority
  14. 28. declared "Give me liberty of give me death!"
  15. 29. a group of late 18th century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies who each signed the declaration of independence
  16. 30. the founding document of the United States; signed by the founding fathers
  17. 31. also called tories; colonists who stayed loyal to Great Britain
  18. 32. a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator.
  19. 34. prohibited colonists from settling west
Down
  1. 1. colonists who rebelled against British monarchical control
  2. 2. an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher and also signed the declaration of independence
  3. 3. the age of human reasoning that discovered truths about the world, religion, and politics
  4. 4. the war for independence fought by american-colonists against British forces to escape the British Empire
  5. 6. the last battle of the Revolution, where the patriots won
  6. 7. wrote Common Sense; was a English-born American philosopher as well as a founding father
  7. 9. patriot colonists dumped tea into the harbor in protest
  8. 11. the first battle of the Revolutionary War, in which the colonists won, giving them hope to beat the British
  9. 14. a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American War of Independence
  10. 19. also known as the 7-year-war; fought between European powers over land-control in America
  11. 21. colonists that tried to stay entirely out of the war
  12. 22. a treaty that ended the French and Indian war
  13. 25. delegates from 12 of the 13 American colonies met to discuss the British aggression
  14. 27. a treaty signed creating a military alliance between the United States and France against Great Britain
  15. 33. characterized by a lack of competition, which tends to lead to higher prices and inferior products