Across
- 8. colonies proclaimed themselves the United States of America, and the American Revolution formally began
- 11. stamps were bought and placed on most printed materials from newspapers and legal documents to diplomas and playing cards
Down
- 1. bringing people back to religion
- 2. Thomas Paine helped sway public opinion with this pamphlet, published in January 1776
- 3. protest group that organized meetings and protests and tried to intimidate stamp distributors
- 4. said all people were born with certain natural rights, right to life, liberty, and property
- 5. laws that kept African captives from owning property, receiving an education, moving about freely, or meeting in large groups
- 6. first successful settlement in America
- 7. correspondence writes letters between colonies
- 9. new ideas about science, government, and world
- 10. systems involving exchanges of goods among the colonies, England, Caribbean sugar planters, and Africa