Causes & People of the Revolutionary War

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Across
  1. 4. The main area in North America that was fought over in the French and Indian War
  2. 6. Where representatives from the 13 colonies met to write the Declaration of Independence
  3. 9. The main writer of the Declaration of Independence
  4. 10. Refusing to use or buy goods
  5. 14. An event where patriots dressed up as Indians and threw a lot of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act
  6. 15. The name given to colonists who joined in the fight to gain independence from Britain
  7. 16. Was put in charge of the Continental Army at the Second Continental Congress in 1775
  8. 17. Documents that gave British officials the right to enter homes and businesses to look for smuggled goods that the colonists might have to avoid paying British taxes
  9. 19. act British law that forced colonists to house, feed, & give supplies to British troops
  10. 20. War fought between the French and British for territory in North America; the British won, but were left with a lot of debt
  11. 21. A group of colonists led by Samuel Adams who met to discuss their unhappiness with British rule; gave out papers, gave speeches, and organized riots and boycotts to protest
Down
  1. 1. Patriots who were willing and ready to fight at any given moment
  2. 2. A black patriot who lost his life during the Boston Massacre
  3. 3. British tax on luxury items like wine, molasses, and silk
  4. 5. Britain's punishment for the colonists after the Boston Tea Party; closed the port of Boston until the city paid for the destroyed tea, put the colony under military control, and increased the power of the British governor in Massachusetts
  5. 7. Wrote an article called "Common Sense," which argued that it would be common sense for the colonists to become independent from Britain
  6. 8. North Carolina woman who held one of the first political gatherings and protests by women
  7. 11. The name given to colonists who stayed loyal to the King of Britain
  8. 12. An event where patriots protesting British policies threw snowballs and oyster shells at British soldiers who responded by shooting at the protests; five colonists were killed
  9. 13. King of England during the time of the Revolution; did not want to give up economic and political control of the 13 colonies
  10. 18. An order that Britain made in their North American territory that closed territory west of the Appalachians to prevent further conflicts between the colonists and Natives