French an Indian War / Taxes and Boycotts
Across
- 1. taxed items like paint, glass, lead, paper, and tea imported to the American colonies; allowed writes of assistance
- 4. rode from Boston to Lexington warning that the British Redcoats were coming
- 5. act extending a Canadian province and allowed the French Canadians to keep their law, language, and Catholicism
- 8. colonial congress in Philadelphia of all colonies; named Washington as general and sent Olive Branch Petition
- 9. act giving the British East India Company the exclusive right to sell tea to the colonies without paying an import tax
- 12. militia men who were ready to fight at a moment's notice, while living their normal lives
- 13. acts that closed the port of Boston, limited self government, tried British officials in Britain; meant to punish Boston Tea Partiers
- 14. act taxing sugar in the colonies from anywhere but Britain
- 15. Indian league that sided with the British in the French and Indian War
- 16. Ottowa chief who led Indian uprising against the British in the Ohio Valley after the French and Indian War
- 18. the first colonist killed in the American Revolution
- 19. act stating parliament's right to make laws in the colonies
- 21. prime minister who ended salutary neglect after the French and Indian War
- 22. colonial congress of delegates from every colony but Georgia who met in Philadelphia and agreed to start a militia
- 24. protest where Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
- 26. French fort built in modern-day Pittsburgh where George Washington had been sent to build a fort
Down
- 2. unofficial British policy of not strictly enforcing laws in colonial America
- 3. incident where British soldiers fired into a crowd of unruly Bostonians killing five
- 5. act requiring colonists to pay for the housing and feeding of British soldiers in North America
- 6. first battles of the American Revolution
- 7. colonial congress of delegates from 9 colonies who met in New York and sent a petition to the king
- 10. ended the French and Indian War
- 11. act levying a tax on paper items in the colonies
- 17. built abruptly by George Washington and his troops before being surrounded and captured by the French
- 20. other name for French and Indian War
- 23. land west of the Appalachians and disputed between the French and British
- 25. Franklin's failed plan for a union among the colonies