Module 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles
  2. 5. supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe
  3. 6. first armed militia to arrive or await a battle
  4. 7. military conflict of the American Revolution in which American Patriot forces under George Washington's command defeated the British
  5. 9. signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary
  6. 12. theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French
  7. 16. known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence
  8. 17. human reasoning could discover truths about the world, religion, and politics and could be used to improve the lives of humankind
  9. 18. colonists who rebelled against British monarchial control
  10. 19. British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American War of Independence
  11. 21. 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776
  12. 22. ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France
  13. 25. leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
  14. 28. founding document of the United States. It was adopted on July 4, 1776
  15. 29. taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards
  16. 30. series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
  17. 31. established by Virginia's colonial government in 1691 to regulate trade and to collect taxes on both imports and exports for Great Britain
Down
  1. 1. prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War
  2. 3. creating a military alliance between the United States and France against Great Britain
  3. 4. American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts
  4. 8. freedom limited by the need for order in society
  5. 10. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression
  6. 11. regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism"
  7. 13. "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
  8. 14. colonist loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution
  9. 15. people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior
  10. 20. rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away
  11. 23. an impartial or unbiased country or person.
  12. 24. American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States
  13. 26. American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States
  14. 27. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.