US/VA History Revolutionary War Vocab Crossword

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  1. 2. Allied the French with the colonists during the war
  2. 5. Book written by Thomas Paine; included ideas of full independence from Britain
  3. 7. When one company has full or nearly full control over the production and sale of a resource or good
  4. 10. The battle where the first shots of the revolutionary war were fired
  5. 12. Protestors of british taxation dumped tea shipments into the Boston harbor
  6. 13. An agreement between the government and the people that gives the government the right to rule
  7. 15. Colonial town where Cornwallis surrendered
  8. 17. Britain taxed colonies for everything made of paper
  9. 18. Colonists that tried to stay as
  10. 19. Liberty that is limited by laws and rules in order to maintain organization and peace in society
  11. 21. Declared war with Britain
  12. 24. Colonists who believed British rule and taxation over the colonies was justifiable
  13. 26. Believed in natural rights of "Life, Liberty, and Estate."
  14. 28. Treaty that ended the American Revolution
  15. 29. Meeting of American officials in Philadelphia where
  16. 30. Ideological revolution in Europe where ideas of individualism, liberalism, and social rights were emphasized
  17. 31. Wrote the Declaration of Independence
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  1. 1. Colonists who believed in independence from Britain
  2. 3. A series of laws passed by Britain to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
  3. 4. British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesting colonists in Boston
  4. 6. Declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death."
  5. 8. General of the Continental Army and first president of the US
  6. 9. British army officer who surrendered at Yorktown
  7. 11. War between colonists and British for independence from Britain
  8. 14. Enlightened thinker; wrote Common Sense
  9. 16. Limited colonial expansion west
  10. 20. British Commander-in-Chief during the American Revolution
  11. 22. Ended the Seven Years' War
  12. 23. War between Britain and France over territorial disputes; AKA the French and Indian war
  13. 25. Continental fighters who were "ready at a minute's notice"
  14. 27. Rights that all citizens have the protected right to (Life, Liberty, and Estate)