Across
- 3. a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed
- 5. 20 year-old French aristocrat who joined Washington at Valley Forge and lobbied the French government to help supply the Continental Army
- 6. the site where British General Burgoyne surrendered to Continental General Horatio Gates on October 17, 1777, and the British strategy from this point on was to stay near the coastal cities where they had support from the British navy
- 8. British general who helped capture Charles Town, South Carolina in May 1780, capturing 5,500 American soldiers, and later capturing North and South Carolina
- 10. he responded to the Boston Tea Party and the destruction of British property by British colonists by urging Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts
- 11. colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution
- 12. colonists who supported American independence from Britain
- 13. a document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain
- 14. the Continental Congress that convened in May 1775, approved the Declaration of Independence, and served as the only agency of national government during the Revolutionary War
- 16. one of the groups set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties
- 21. on October 19, 1781, starved of support and supplies while under bombardment and surrounded by sea and land by the Continental Army and Navy, this will be the site of the final British surrender, ending the American Revolution
- 22. the belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social, and civil rights
- 26. the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation
- 27. the low point for General Washington and his troops, where many men deserted the army or starved during the winter camp 1777-1778, near Philadelphia
Down
- 1. the Continental Congress authorized this Enlightenment thinker to write the Declaration of Independence
- 2. the document in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies’ independence from Britain
- 4. A Prussian captain and talented drillmaster who volunteered for General Washington to make trained, disciplined soldiers out of Washington’s army
- 6. a 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America
- 7. the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea in to Boston Harbor by colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed
- 9. Patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War, pledged to be ready to fight at a minute’s notice
- 15. a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
- 17. an increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money
- 18. Battle in New Jersey where Washington crossed the Delaware to surprise the unprepared Hessians and British forces, a significant victory for General Washington and the Continental Army
- 19. a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America
- 20. temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority
- 23. One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty, cousin of John Adams, unsuccessful in business, but became an influential political activist
- 24. a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain
- 25. the selling of goods in short supply at inflated rates