Unit 2 Vocabulary (US History)

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Across
  1. 2. Philadelphia 1775 it took the huge step of declaring America's independence from Britain.
  2. 3. Revolutionary War battle, winter of 1776, New Jersey; unprecedented fighting vs the Hessians around Christmas
  3. 4. a serie battles in 1777 in NY, was a turning point in the war. The largest victory yet for the Americans.
  4. 6. established & legitimized the authority of Great Britain to tax the British colonies in North America.
  5. 8. a group of colonist who used disobedience to intimidate and outrage loyalist and the British government
  6. 9. the event that led to the committee of correspondence being created
  7. 11. tactic in which an enemy is surrounded and starved in order to make it surrender
  8. 14. a foreign soldier who is hired and fights for a fee
  9. 16. colonials who fought for American independence from Great Britain
  10. 17. housing troops
  11. 19. tax on news paper, pamphlets, and legal documents
  12. 22. An article that started chatter on the future revolution
  13. 24. a right that is given to a person simply because they are human
  14. 25. made a painting about the Boston Massacre
  15. 27. expressed colonists continued loyalty to monarch & sought an end to fighting until a solution could be found
  16. 28. Order by the British king that closed the region west of the Appalachian Mountains to all settlement by colonists
  17. 29. made to help the east India tea company make more money
Down
  1. 1. proposal by Benjamin Franklin for the creation of a grand council of representatives from Britain’s American colonies
  2. 5. Coercive Acts; Parliament passed these laws to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party.
  3. 7. what colonist did to protest agents the sugar act “Revenue Act” law aimed at preventing the smuggling of molasses & collecting higher taxes & duties.
  4. 10. top official in a parliamentary government
  5. 12. movement that emphasized science & reason to improve society
  6. 13. used to isolate and cut off outside contact
  7. 15. Signed by Great Britain, France and Spain to exchange land
  8. 18. what implemented a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
  9. 20. established & legitimized the authority of Great Britain to tax the British colonies in North America.
  10. 21. a steady increase in prices over time
  11. 23. what was made to cut taxes on imported molasses
  12. 26. person who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolution