History Chapter 2 Test 1

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