Revolutionary War Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. – a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country.
  2. 7. The unwritten, unspoken agreement between citizens and their government. Citizens give up some rights in order to receive protection and safety.
  3. 8. – a person who offers views or theories on ethics, government and other related fields
  4. 11. – make the laws
  5. 12. – the lawmaking body of Great Britain
  6. 13. French nobleman who served in the Continental Army; worked with the king of France to send French troops, ships and funds that assisted the colonists in the American Revolution and contributed to the victory at Yorktown
  7. 15. – an economic system that existed in Europe from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. A nation’s wealth was determined by how much gold and silver in their treasury. Led to very strict import/export policy
  8. 17. British king during the Revolutionary era
  9. 18. Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense, promoting American independence.
  10. 20. – The government may only do those things that the people give it the power to do
  11. 21. the governed – The power of government comes from the permission of the people/citizens
  12. 22. – the state or attitude of not being satisfied, discontent
  13. 23. Outspoken member of the House of Burgesses; inspired colonial patriotism with his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
  14. 24. British general who surrendered at Yorktown
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  1. 1. – rights that cannot be taken away
  2. 2. a Scottish philosopher, who explained that governments get their power from the citizens. The idea of the social contract because the natural state of man is to be free. (See below for Social Contract definition)
  3. 3. Commander of the Continental Army
  4. 5. the announcement by the 13 colonies that the colonies were to be free and independent of England’s control. The document was written, primarily, by Thomas Jefferson and passed by the Second Continental Congress.
  5. 6. Prominent member of the Continental Congress; helped frame the Declaration of Independence; helped gain French support for American independence
  6. 9. patriot who made a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival; his print of the Boston Massacre was printed throughout the colonies and changed a lot of colonists’ minds about their loyalties to England. (Made them angry and changed the colonists’ minds).
  7. 10. the legislative body in Virginia Colony
  8. 11. – freedom
  9. 14. Major author of the Declaration of Independence
  10. 16. promoted the cause of independence through letters and writings
  11. 19. enslaved African American who wrote poems and plays supporting American independence and who eventually gained her freedom