US History Unit 2 Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. The battle of ___ gave decisive victory to Americans over British in A.R
  2. 5. Head of government in a country with a parliamentary political system
  3. 7. The ____Act granted British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American Colonies (1773)
  4. 9. The ____________ Petition was a final appeal to King before formal war declared
  5. 12. The battle of ___ was the last major battle of the A.R
  6. 14. The _____Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament after the Boston Tea Party (1774)
  7. 15. The Albany Plan of ___ was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government
  8. 16. The Treaty of ___ (1783) ended the A.R and officially recognized the United States of America as independent nation
  9. 18. A soldier hired to serve in a foreign army for a fee
  10. 19. The ___Act enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British colonies (1764)
  11. 20. Colonists who rejected British crown and wanted independence
  12. 21. The ___Acts taxed imported goods and colonists saw act as abuse of power (1767)
  13. 25. Loosely organized sometimes violent poilitical organization active in the 13 colonies founded to advance the rights of colonists and fight taxation without representation
  14. 27. American colonists who stayed loyal to British Crown during American Revolution
  15. 28. Forced accomodations for British troops on colonies
  16. 30. The Second ________ was a meeting of delegates from 13 colonies united in the American Revolution (1775)
  17. 31. Thomas Paine wrote 47 page pamphlet advocating independence from Britain with moral and political arguments called _____
  18. 32. The___Act was a declaration by British parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act (1766)
Down
  1. 1. A ban that forbids cooperation with a policy or handling of good etc.
  2. 2. ___ of 1763 was a British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide (KG3) transferred French territory to Britain
  3. 3. The ___Act was a direct tax on paper products to help pay for British troops during French and Indian War (1765)
  4. 4. The _____War was a French-British dispute over land/trade routes and British "won" happened 1754-1763 (7yrs War)
  5. 6. Intellectual and philosophical movement emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
  6. 8. Confrontation in Boston where 9 British soldiers shot 5 unarmed colonists in a violent crowd(1770)
  7. 10. Act of sealing off place to prevent people or goods from leaving
  8. 11. The rights given to all humans, simply for being human
  9. 13. The battle of ___ was the first victory for American troops
  10. 17. Practice of making or seeking to make an excessive/unfair profit
  11. 22. The Battles of ____ & _____ were the first military engagements of American Revolution (1775)
  12. 23. The _____Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of 13 colonies (1774)
  13. 24. ____Revere was a Sons of Liberty member, patriot, founding father, went to Lexington to warn patriots hiding there of possible British attack
  14. 26. The ___ of Paris (1763) was a treaty concluding conflicts of French and Indian War
  15. 29. A military operation in which enemy forces surround a town and force it to surrender by cutting off essentials (food)