Causes of the American Revolution

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Across
  1. 3. - British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd of protestors and killed five Americans.
  2. 4. - In response to the Boston Tea Party. Included closing the Port of Boston.
  3. 6. - When science is valued more than religion in a society
  4. 8. -Local towns and villages had to provide housing and food for any British soldiers based there.
  5. 10. - A 1773 protest against British taxes in which colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbour.
  6. 12. - To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies
Down
  1. 1. - Americans had to have newspapers and legal documents stamped by a government official. They also had to pay for this.
  2. 2. - The person in charge of each state
  3. 5. -Combined effort of the British and Americans to defeat the French who had colonies in Canada and America.
  4. 7. - The Sugar Act
  5. 9. - The 13 original states of America e.g, Delaware & Georgia
  6. 10. - To stop using or doing something in order to protest it
  7. 11. - A group of colonists who burned stamps and attacked stamp officials.