Road to Revolution Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. This pamphlet was written by Thomas Paine and outlined the need for independence.
  2. 4. This law was created to cut off all trade between the Thirteen Colonies and England and removed the colonies from the King's protection.
  3. 7. The Committee of _________ was established to create assemblies in VA and MA which were set up to communicate with other colonies about threats to American Liberties.
  4. 11. This was the confrontation between the British troops and a rowdy mob of colonists resulting in 5 colonists dying.
  5. 12. These were colonists who supported the British crown.
  6. 13. The Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights established taxation by __________.
  7. 14. The Boston _____ Act closed the port in Boston until all tea was paid for.
  8. 17. an unofficial British policy of lax enforcement of trade laws and other regulations on the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s.
  9. 18. These were colonists who supported independence from Britain.
  10. 19. Also known as the Coercive Acts, were the last straw for the colonists.
Down
  1. 1. This resistance group attempted to reduce the dependence on British textiles.
  2. 3. This was a tax on all paper goods, legal documents, newspapers and playing cards.
  3. 5. This law stated Parliament has full right to make laws to bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever.
  4. 6. This placed a foreign tax on molasses and other luxuries on the colonists.
  5. 8. This event happened in response to the Tea Act where Sons of Liberty dressed liked natives and dumped tea into the harbor.
  6. 9. These placed a tax on paper, paint, lead, glass and tea.
  7. 10. 56 Delegates met in Philadelphia and developed the declaration of colonial rights.
  8. 14. issued by King George III that established rules for British colonists prohibiting colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  9. 15. The Massachusetts __________ Act enacted Martial Law in Boston following the Boston Tea Party.
  10. 16. ___________ and Concord was where the "shot heard round the world" happened.
  11. 17. This was a resistance group in the colonies led by Samuel Adams.