Across
- 2. A series of acts to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
- 4. Increase in prices or decline in purchasing power.
- 6. Colonists who supported American independence from Britain.
- 7. A group set up by the American colonists to exchange information.
- 10. Law that established the first direct tax on goods and services in the colonies.
- 11. Series of laws establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Great Britain to the colonies.
- 12. Belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social, and civil rights.
Down
- 1. Civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War pledged to be ready to fight quickly.
- 3. Confirmed American independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
- 5. Colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution.
- 8. The selling of goods in short supply at inflated prices.
- 9. Temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority.