Chapter 6: Home of the Brave

1. closed the city of Boston to all commerce
4. organized in the colonies to keep people informed and to publish American views abroad
8. organized by Ethan Allen; captured Fort Ticonderoga
9. pamphlet by Thomas Paine detailing English liberties and the abuses of the monarchy and Parliament
10. patriot sea captain famous for declaring, "I have not yet begun to fight"
12. location of the First and Second Continental Congress
15. "Fighting Quaker"; defeated the British a the Battle of Cowpens by attacking and retreating
16. prime minister of England who sympathized with the colonists
18. commander of the Continental Army during the War for Independence
22. acts imposed by Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party
24. private vessels commissioned by the Congress or the state governments for use in the war

2. colonists who remained loyal to the king and opposed the War for Independence; also called Tories
3. American patriot who turned traitor and joined the British
5. British general who surrendered at Yorktown
6. young French officer who assisted Washington in the War for Independence
7. acts imposed on the colonies by Charles Townshend to raise money for the English treasury
10. led the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence
11. patriot general who defeated Burgoyne at Saratoga; general of the Southern Campaign
13. German mercenaries hired by King George III to fight for Britain
14. colonial militia who could be "ready in a minute" to fight the British
17. elected president of the Second Continental Congress
19. began the Committee of Corespondance
20. famous patriot known for the declaration "give me liberty or give me death!"
21. winter camp of Washington and his army where Washington lost most of his army to disease and starvation
23. name for the first major battle of the War for Independence; actually fought on Breed's Hill