Unit 2: The Enlightenment

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Across
  1. 3. punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government
  2. 4. first written constitution of the United States
  3. 6. Common Sense-pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
  4. 7. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor
  5. 9. tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports
Down
  1. 1. type of government in which the power is divided between the national government and other governmental units
  2. 2. signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ending the American Revolutionary War
  3. 5. armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades
  4. 8. a cruel and oppressive ruler