The American Revolution

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  1. 2. name of American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride
  2. 4. of government that creates the laws.
  3. 5. that announced the separation of 13 colonies from Great Britain
  4. 6. series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
  5. 8. name of an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States
  6. 9. violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787,
  7. 10. first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
  8. 15. loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the 13 American Colonies
  9. 17. of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.
  10. 20. in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British
  11. 22. form of government in which the people elect, or choose, their leaders.
  12. 24. taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
  13. 25. that put taxes on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources
  14. 26. Branch of government that enforces the laws.
  15. 27. article added to the US Constitution.
  16. 28. two branches or chambers.
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  1. 1. favored stronger state governments, a weak centralized government
  2. 3. name of American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat.
  3. 7. military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War before defecting to the British in 1780.
  4. 11. name of man who served as the first Secretary of Treasury from 1789 to 1795
  5. 12. name of the in who in the US and the UK, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence.
  6. 13. of government that interprets the laws.
  7. 14. was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government
  8. 16. favored weaker state governments, a strong centralized government
  9. 18. deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston.
  10. 19. political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.
  11. 21. in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain
  12. 23. supreme law of the United States of America.