The American Revolution

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Across
  1. 3. Legislative body whose policies fueled colonial grievances.
  2. 5. Massachusetts engagements often regarded as the opening military confrontations of the war.
  3. 7. Philosophical concept asserting inherent freedoms that governments cannot legitimately remove.
  4. 11. Diplomatic full stop to the war.
  5. 14. Age of reason behind revolutionary thinking.
  6. 15. Political condition achieved by the colonies after victory in the Revolutionary War.
  7. 18. Military force organized by the colonies to oppose British troops.
  8. 21. Written break-up letter to an empire.
  9. 22. Harbor protest that brewed trouble for Britain.
Down
  1. 1. Delegative body that coordinated colonial resistance and later governed during the war.
  2. 2. Colonial complaint condensed into a famous slogan.
  3. 4. Taxing paper trail left by Parliament.
  4. 6. Conflict that transformed thirteen British colonies into a new nation
  5. 8. Winter trial that strengthened Washington's army.
  6. 9. Virginian statesman whose pen helped justify separation from Britain.
  7. 10. One supporting colonial liberty, not crown authority.
  8. 12. Faithful subject of George .III despite rebellion.
  9. 13. Act of resistance involving tea cargo and Boston Harbor.
  10. 16. Military leader who presided over the Continental Army and later became the first U.S. president.
  11. 17. Formal cooperative agreement that helped secure support for the American cause.
  12. 19. Fighters measured in moments, not hours.
  13. 20. Individual who chose neither the British nor colonial side during the conflict.