Across
- 2. – governor of Connecticut
- 9. – war in which the American colonists fought for their freedom from England
- 13. commander of the British troops during the French and Indian War
- 14. – group of people ruled by their own native country who settle in another land
- 16. first shots fired in the American War for Independence-
- 17. Massachusetts – the place that the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre happened
- 18. President of the Second Continental Congress
- 20. refusal to use or buy certain products
- 23. – first English colony in America became known as “The Lost Colony”
- 24. the tax that only the colonists had to pay on documents
- 31. – a group of patriots who worked to support the rights of the colonists
- 32. Florida – first permanent settlement in North America
- 33. – Puritan preacher who founded Hartford
- 38. meeting of representatives from nine colonies to find a way to avoid the stamp act
- 40. – explorer who claimed the northern land (now Canada) for France
- 42. – an agreement or understanding between two or more countries
- 43. Money citizens of a country must pay to the government
- 45. – Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
- 46. – English Hymn writer whose hymns were popular in the colonies during the Great Awakening
- 48. – Colonists who remained Loyal to England
- 49. – Viking explorer who first found land in the Western Hemisphere
- 51. – Puritan minister who founded Providence in the Rhode Island Colony
- 52. – the written record of what man has done with the time God has given him
- 53. war fought between France and England over land in America
- 54. III- England’s king who passed laws only the colonists had to obey
- 55. –explorer who claimed islands of the coast of North America for Spain
Down
- 1. – guide and military advisor to General Braddock during the French and Indian War
- 3. the allowance of church membership without salvation in the Puritan Church
- 4. – Puritan preacher during the Great Awakening
- 5. – forced to pay taxes without a government representative to defend the colonist’s interest
- 6. – explorer who claimed the eastern coast of North America for Spain
- 7. – patriots who were ready to fight in a minutes notice
- 8. – explorer who conquered Mexico for Spain
- 10. meeting in which colonial representatives wrote down a declaration of rights American colonies should have
- 11. – explorer who first called the newly discovered land in the Western Hemisphere the New World
- 12. 2 large land masses (continents) of the New World named for Amerigo Vespucci
- 15. – several decisions made by the British including the blockade of Boston Harbor to punish the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party
- 16. Columbus discovers America
- 19. – North American areas of Canada, The Great Lakes region, and the Mississippi Valley that were claimed by France
- 21. – Important member of the Second Continental Congress
- 22. – Colonists who wanted America to be free from British rule
- 25. to seal or block off from entering or leaving an area
- 26. event in which the Sons of Liberty threw chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
- 27. – Army of American patriot soldiers formed by the Second Continental Congress
- 28. – spiritual revival that began in New England and spread through the colonies
- 29. – event that caused the death of 5 citizens of Boston at the hands of British soldiers
- 30. – Boston Silversmith and Sons of Liberty who rode to warn the Patriots that the British were coming
- 34. – official permit to begin colonies in the New World
- 35. – English preacher, the most powerful voice during the Great Awakening, he started an orphanage in Georgia
- 36. – first permanent English settlement in the New World
- 37. – a strip of land that connects two larger land masses
- 39. – Virginian Patriot who gave the famous speech “Give me liberty or give me death”
- 41. colonies established under the rule of England
- 44. – Important member of the Second Continental Congress
- 47. – governor of Roanoke
- 50. – founder of the New Hampshire colony