APUSH Unit 3 - The American Revolution

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Across
  1. 3. supporters of the constitution and a strong federal government
  2. 7. required colonists to provide food and living quarters for British soldiers
  3. 13. created by Samuel Adams;kept alive the view that the British were undermining colonial liberties
  4. 14. supported a weak central government
  5. 15. corrected the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
  6. 16. Bostonians harassed British troops resulting in the Troops firing into the crowd, killing 5
  7. 19. developed by Ben Franklin and provided for colonial defense
  8. 20. colonial response to Britain's alarming threats to their liberties
Down
  1. 1. separated the government into 3 branches: Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
  2. 2. first form of American government that provided for an intentionally weak central governement
  3. 4. listed specific grievances against the British government and expressed basic principles that justified revolution
  4. 5. gave women more political power as they could teach their children the values of the new republic
  5. 6. Enlightenment idea of an agreement among people to form a government to promote liberty and equality
  6. 8. officially recognized the bounds and independence of the United States
  7. 9. written by Thomas Paine; argued that the colonies should become independent states and break all political ties with Britian
  8. 10. a secret society organized to intimidate tax agents
  9. 11. colonists disgusted as Native Americans dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
  10. 12. wrote Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania that argued for colonial representation in Parliament
  11. 17. placed a tariff on all paper products in the colonies in an effort to raise funds for the British Military
  12. 18. contained amendments that protected individual liberties