The Road to Independence

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Across
  1. 4. wrote most of the Declaration of Independence
  2. 5. Camp where Washington and his soldier spent the winter
  3. 7. battle against Hessian soldier in New Jersey
  4. 8. British won but this battle encouraged the Patriots
  5. 10. significant Patriot victory, turning point of the war
  6. 11. first a patriot then a loyalist
  7. 12. Pamphlet written making a case for separation from Britain
  8. 15. Asked the King for peace but he refused to read it.
Down
  1. 1. wrote Common Sense
  2. 2. Colonist who choose to fight against the British
  3. 3. "I have not begun to fight yet"
  4. 6. led the British army south from Canada to New York
  5. 9. Hired soldiers or mercenaries from Germany
  6. 13. leader of he Green Mountain Boys
  7. 14. colonists who chose to remain loyal to the King