Across
- 2. the act by which the Continental Congress declared the colonies to be free and independent of England on July 4, 1776
- 4. gathering of delegates from twelve of the thirteen original colonies in 1754
- 6. a time of great philosophical though and scientific invention in Europe, during the Eighteenth Century
- 9. author of the Declaration of Independence
- 10. british general who surrendered at the battle of yorktown in 1781
- 11. a riot that occurred on March 5, 1770
- 12. English philosopher from the Enlightenment period
- 14. first military confrontation of the Revolutionary War
Down
- 1. colonists poured tea into the harbor
- 3. pamphlet which inspired colonists to declare independence
- 5. a series of laws passed by the British in 1774
- 7. "Give me liberty or give me death!"
- 8. also known as the Seven Years War
- 13. Commander in chief of the British army during the American Revolutionary War