The American Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. The only colony that didn't send a representative to the First Continental Congress
  2. 6. Colonists had to provide housing and food to British soldiers
  3. 12. This is where the colonists boycotted British goods and supported Massachusetts
  4. 15. Complaints about Britain in the Declaration of Independence
  5. 16. After the French and Indian War, the English government had no __________.
  6. 18. "No taxation without _______________."
  7. 20. Colonists who were loyal to England
  8. 22. Colonists who fought for independence
  9. 23. Led in the Battle of Kettle Creek and led guerilla fighting
  10. 25. Georgia patriot who captured and killed several loyalist soldiers who invaded her cabin
Down
  1. 1. The document officially declaring the colonies’ independence from Great Britain
  2. 3. Battle in Revolution that raised morale of patriots; led by Elijah Clarke
  3. 4. Georgian who signed the Declaration of Independence
  4. 5. Slave who fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek
  5. 7. War fought over land; English victory; also called Seven Years War
  6. 8. Treaty that ended the French and Indian War; England got all land between Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River
  7. 9. Acts designed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
  8. 10. Said that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
  9. 11. Because the British government was in debt, the colonists had to pay ________.
  10. 13. Treaty that granted independence from Britain
  11. 14. Taxed commonly used items such as newspapers
  12. 17. Georgian who signed the Declaration of Independence
  13. 19. Georgian who signed the Declaration of Independence
  14. 21. Georgia city recaptured by the British
  15. 24. Group created to oppose the Stamp Act