Across
- 3. a system where a group of people make and enforce laws
- 4. A structure which soldiers used for living quarters and to protect the borders of their territory
- 7. a group of Indigenous peoples who allied with the British in the French and Indian war
- 8. the branch of government that helps with debate over laws
- 12. the branch of government that enforces laws
- 14. an law by the British that makes it illegal to refuse letting soldiers live in your house
- 15. Each state sent a few of these people to vote
- 16. the branch of government that makes laws
- 17. citizens grew unhappy about British soldiers, they threw rocks at them, and the British responded with gunfire
- 18. The French and British fought this war because they wanted control over North America
- 19. laws that state that you have to give a certain percentage of the money you pay for certain objects to the government
- 20. Americans felt that the British government was being unfair to them, so they decided to form their own country by starting a war
Down
- 1. the final written document that contains the rules to govern the United States
- 2. citizens were unhappy about the tea act, so they dumped tea into the harbor
- 5. An area of fertile land which was disputed over during the French and Indian war
- 6. The first set of laws meant to govern the United States
- 9. In the US today, this is the main leader of the executive branch of government
- 10. Britain taxed many materials that they knew the colonists couldn’t get themselves
- 11. A general in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, and the first US president
- 13. a law favoring large states, where the amount of votes a state gets in congress increases with the population