Across
- 1. settled representation issues by creating legislature based on population
- 3. parliament took minor actions in the colonies to become more self governed
- 7. people who feared tyranny and demanded a Bill of rights
- 9. in 1763, this prohibited settlements on colonial growth
- 12. shortened abbreviation of a document adopted on July 4th 1776
- 13. (add an and in the middle) acts that aimed at restricting immigration and silencing political opposition
- 14. act that raised money to pay colonial officials
- 15. a system that emerged from disputes over the role of government
- 17. people who favored a strong central government
- 18. war where one made a more independent stand against Britain
- 19. battle that was the turning point of the war
Down
- 2. armed uprising that exposed the weakness of the articles of confederation
- 4. treaty that defined the new nation's borders
- 5. first ten amendments to the constitution
- 6. pamphlet by Thomas Paine
- 8. established a process for admitting new states to the union and banned slavery
- 10. organized group of people who controlled resistance against parliamentary acts
- 11. act that taxed all legal documents to support British troops
- 16. act that increased tariff on sugar
- 20. shortened abbreviation of an article that weakened the central government with no power to tax