U.S. History
Across
- 2. Which act forced colonists to house British soldiers?
- 3. How many people died in the Boston massacre?
- 5. On what date was the Declaration of Independence traditionally recognized as being signed?
- 6. What country did the American colonist rebel against?
- 9. Who was the monarch that ruled England during the American Revolution?
- 10. Where was the first battle of the American Revolution?
- 13. Which of the following taxes tried to help the British East India Company by shipping surplus tea to the colonies to sell below the price of colonial merchants?
- 14. Which of the following required colonists to play a direct tax on all paper used?
- 15. After the French and Indian War ended, King George 111 decided that the best way to resolve the conflict was to limit settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains by issuing which of the following?
- 16. Which of the following cut tea tades in Britain, but raised taxes on the colonies on the import of paper, lead, paint, glass, and tea?
- 17. What did the Treaty of Paris accomplish
- 18. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Down
- 1. At what battle did General Cornwallis surrender?
- 3. During which war did the rivalry between Britain abd France extended to America as the two powers competed to extend their colonial holdings to the Ohio River Valley and throughout the Great Lakes?
- 4. Which of the following taxed the import of sugar, wine, coffee, molasses, and other goods?
- 7. Which of the following acts passed by parliament closed Boston's port to all trade except for food, fuel and provisions for British troops?
- 8. Which of the following declared Parliaments's right to make laws for the colonies?
- 11. The economic relationship between the American colonies and Great Britain was based on a system know as what?
- 12. Which of the following battles is considered to be the turning point of the American Revolution?
- 15. Who famously warned the Minutemen that the British were coming?