The American Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. Colonist were not happy with taxation, so they did this to counter it.
  2. 5. The mountain range that King George suggested colonies not go beyond
  3. 6. The battle between Great Britain and France
  4. 8. George _____ was the Commander and Chief of the colonist militia and also first president of the US.
  5. 12. One of the imperial superpowers
  6. 13. The ____ Act was a tax that imposed extra payment on paper goods
  7. 14. Colonist exclaimed this as the King continued to make them pay. "No taxation without ______".
  8. 16. An item that was enjoyed every day by colonist and was heavily taxes
  9. 17. British/European people who started a new life in North America
Down
  1. 1. One of the imperial superpowers
  2. 3. What Great Britain imposed on colonist to pay for the war
  3. 4. The river that separated Great Britain and Spain in North America
  4. 7. This document created the formal government for the United States
  5. 9. This is what colonist wanted to gain from Great Britain.
  6. 10. Great Britain had much of this after the war
  7. 11. Instead of resolving conflict, King George declared this by firing the first shots at Lexington and Concord.
  8. 15. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created ____".