Across
- 2. the period of time where King Charles ll restored the monarchy was known as...
- 5. Declaration of Independence, announcing that the Thirteen Colonies were no longer a part of the British Empire
- 6. Was a french writer that used wit and satire to criticize the french monarchy, nobility and church
- 8. happened on march 5 1770
- 9. installed a republican government and wrote the first constitution of any European nation.
- 13. created to help cover the cost of maintaining troops in the colonies.
- 17. meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States
- 19. captured and publicly beheaded King Charles 1.
- 22. was Catholic and appointed fellow Catholics to office.
- 24. was also called blood rebellion.
- 25. written in 1776
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- 1. the British thought that the people should start paying high taxes to pay off the money owed from the war
- 3. protected the people from the government.
- 4. were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
- 7. first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
- 10. died in 1603.
- 11. this war lasted from 1642 to 1649.
- 12. parliament forced him to sign a petition of right which said that the law was higher then the king.
- 14. Authorized new translation of the bible, but did not make other Puritan reforms.
- 15. the goal for this act was to get the colonists to pay taxes to Britain.
- 16. were asked to overthrow James ll
- 18. ended the American revolution
- 20. fought between 1754 to
- 21. said " if the government can not protect these rights, people have the right to over through it"
- 23. established the basis for governing the North American territories surrendered by France to Britain in the Treaty of Paris
