Across
- 2. Wrote Common Sense
- 5. an event where colonists, disguised as indians, boarded three ships and tossed several hundred chests of tea into the harbor
- 6. were ready to fight at a minute’s notice
- 8. a series of laws passed by the British in 1774
- 9. military general of the American rebel forces
- 11. Commander in Chief of the British army
- 15. colonists who called for independence
- 16. remain neutral in foreign affairs
- 19. British law passed after the French and Indian War
- 21. colonists confronted British troops and the troops fired upon and killed several colonists
- 22. known as Tories
- 23. English philosopher from the Enlightenment period
- 24. the last battle of the Revolutionary War
- 25. Give me liberty or give me death
- 26. signed by the United States and Great Britain in 1783
- 27. sole control of the supply of a good or service
- 29. the war between Great Britain and its American colonies
- 30. first military confrontation of the Revolutionary War
- 31. British general who surrendered at the battle of yorktown in 1781
Down
- 1. Written by Thomas Paine
- 3. the political theory that individuals have undeniable basic rights
- 4. the Seven Years War
- 7. the act by which the Continental Congress declared the colonies to be free and independent of England
- 10. philosophical thought and scientific invention in Europe
- 12. the philosophical concept expressing the balance sought in the government
- 13. gathering of delegates
- 14. Author of the Declaration of Independence
- 17. signed by Great Britain and France in 1763
- 18. in which each country agreed to help the other defend itself against England
- 20. an agreement for mutual benefit
- 28. British law passed in 1756 that imposed a tax on all printed materials