Across
- 2. required colonists to house British soldiers in barracks provided by colonies.
- 9. A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within British colonies in North America
- 10. turning point in the war; convinced French to aid the Americans in their efforts
- 11. A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests
- 13. the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into the British harbor to protest the Tea Act
- 14. people started using science and reasoning
- 15. 1773 permitted to sell tea directly to colonists without a middleman, reduced price
Down
- 1. first constitution of the United States
- 3. a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which 5 colonists were killed
- 4. The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the Independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation
- 5. Colonists last attempt to avoid going to war with Britain declarationofindependence Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams wrote it on June 2, 1776
- 6. set tax imported sugar and molasses
- 7. English philosopher and political theorist who laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment
- 8. a group appointed by the legislature in the 13 British American colonies to provide colonial leadership and aid intercolonial cooperation
- 12. Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called ___ convincing people the revolution was a good idea