Across
- 4. an organization and militia that urged the 13 colonies to declare independence, led by Samuel Addams, organized the Boston tea party
- 5. a male ruler empowered by divine right
- 6. Britain’s highest legislative body consisting of several representative houses
- 9. USA sent this to the king with 56 signatures
- 12. coat a nickname for the British solders of the colonial era named for the color of their uniforms
- 13. the elected head of a nation
- 14. the country that lost the revolutionary war against America
- 16. when a government requires additional payment on goods or income for the sake of funding itself
- 17. USA made one to establish its fundamental principles and rights
- 18. a forcible overthrow of a government of social system
- 19. a national legislative body specifically one that the colonies instated along with the executive and judicial branches of government
Down
- 1. land under control of a country and occupied by the country’s settlers and military
- 2. American revolutionary fighters who were prepared to fight in one minute after being alerted
- 3. a military force raised from the civil population
- 7. to be portrayed, specifically in parliament, the colonies were not
- 8. a man who helped establish independence by signing the declaration, fighting British,
- 10. the country that declared independence from Britain on the 4th of July 1776
- 11. someone who remains loyal to established government or a ruler
- 15. someone who vigorously supports their country and is willing to fight for it, not Tories
- 20. a branch of a nations armed forces that conducts operations on the seas, Britains was the strongest