English and American Revolution crossword
Across
- 7. a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.
- 9. became king and queen of England in 1689.
- 16. a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War.
- 20. who was a strong advocate of royal absolutism?
- 21. who was known for His placement of Catholic allies in high positions in the court and army?
- 22. who was known for being Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland?
- 23. Who established Protestantism in England?
- 25. an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America.
Down
- 1. the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
- 2. he ruled England as a virtual dictator until his death
- 3. ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
- 4. what refers to the event that saw King James II of England deposed and succeeded by one of his daughters and her husband.
- 5. a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountain
- 6. a theater of the Seven Years War which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French.
- 8. the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- 10. what was a result of an ongoing quarrel between parliament and King Charles I?
- 11. an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company
- 12. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"
- 13. a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770.
- 14. compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other.
- 15. it marked the return of Charles II as king.
- 17. an act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II.
- 18. punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
- 19. whose actions frustrated his Parliament and resulted in the war of the English Civil War?
- 24. a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit