The road to the revolution
Across
- 2. skirmish that erupted when colonists outside Boston ambushed British soldiers. The shot was heard around the world.
- 3. Britain's law-making body.
- 4. top general in the continental Army.
- 5. battle that took place on a hill in Boston between Massachusetts Minutemen and British soldiers.
- 7. taxes on paper, paint, lead, and glass.
- 8. total control over pricing and distribution of a product.
- 9. on organized decision by a large group of people to stop buying a product.
- 10. won by France and the Continental Army. Britain's army surrendered. Final battle of the war.
- 12. mostly made up of merchants, these were terrorists that antagonized Parliament and pushed the country towards war.
- 14. signed in France. Britain gets claim to all land east of Mississippi.
Down
- 1. known as swamp fox. Led guerilla-style ambush assaults in the south against the British army.
- 3. after the French and Indian war, Indian's attacked colonists who tried to settle in the Ohio Valley.
- 6. won by the Continental Army. Turning point in the war. persuaded France to join the war.
- 11. pushed into the countryside during a harsh winter.
- 13. colonists who supported the war with Britain.