Independence Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Seven Years' War (1754-1763)
  2. 8. Thomas Paine's most famous pamphlet
  3. 9. closed off all regions west of Appalachians to colonists
  4. 11. taxes on newspapers, legal documents and other printer materials
  5. 13. explained purpose of Declaration of Independence; "We the people..."
  6. 14. crossing the Delware
  7. 15. founding father; principal author of the Declaration of Independence
  8. 17. French aristocrat who was a general in the American Revolutionary War
Down
  1. 1. enlightenment think whose ideas influence the Declaration of Independence greatly
  2. 2. George Washington's leadership
  3. 3. section of the D.o.I that named natural born rights to citizent
  4. 5. "These united colonies are, and of right ought to be,free and independent states"
  5. 6. closed Boston Harbor until destroyed tea was repaid
  6. 7. military camp in Pennsylvania in 1777-1778
  7. 10. last major battle of the Revolutionary War in 1783
  8. 12. signed after the Seven Years' War by Great Britain and France
  9. 16. signed after the American Revolutionary War by Great Britain and The U.S
  10. 17. foreign soldiers who fight for pay
  11. 18. undertook the Boston Tea Party in 1773
  12. 19. number of complaints on the list to the King included in the D.o.I