Across
- 5. Giving permission to set up a colony in America
- 6. Forced colonist to put expensive tax stamps on all legal documents
- 7. By the mid-1700s there were 13 of these, and each other them had its own government.
- 8. The first Englishmen came to America four hundred years ago looking for gold, silver, and a _______ to Asia.
- 9. Colonies were dependent on the king and declaring that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect
- 12. Series of laws cracked down on rebellious activity in Massachusetts
- 13. July 4,1776 the declaration of ________ was signed.
- 14. Written to solve a basic problem;self-government
- 18. Who did not get to vote in 1620?
- 19. Document expanded the rights of the parliament and the people
- 20. Area in which a state's rule applies
Down
- 1. Taxing things it knew the colonists couldn't make for themselves
- 2. After the Americans won the Revolutionary War; the ________ of America was born.
- 3. Forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their homes
- 4. Agreement to form a majority-rule government
- 10. Nobody is above the law, not even elected officials
- 11. Representatives who made laws and stood up for peoples' rights
- 14. Limited the power of the king and protected certain rights
- 15. They published a series of newspapers editorials in Britain
- 16. They went looking for money, they saw the colonies around the worlds as a source of profit.
- 17. British started a _____ after they passed the Stamp Act