French an Indian War / Taxes and Boycotts

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