Section 1: The Colonies Fight for Their Rights

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Across
  1. 1. This French fort was a main obstacle for the British during the French and Indian War
  2. 3. The French and Indian War ended in 1763 with the Treaty of ___.
  3. 6. These courts took away the colonists’ right to a fair trial with a jury. British judges were also promised 5% of confiscated goods if they found the defendant guilty
  4. 8. According to accounts, the first colonist to die was a man of African and Native American descent known as ___.
  5. 10. This act banned the use of paper money in the colonies because it tended to lose value quickly
  6. 12. group of instigators in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government
  7. 14. In protest of British taxation, the colonists called for the ___ of all British goods
  8. 16. proper court procedures
  9. 18. This act, passed in 1764,raised tax rates on imports of raw sugar and molasses. It also placed new taxes on silk, wine, coffee, pimento, and indigo
  10. 19. In August 1768, the merchants of Boston and New York signed ___ agreements, vowing not to import goods from Britain.
  11. 20. King George III passed the __ of 1763 which drew a north-south line along the Appalachian Mountains
  12. 21. Following the French and Indian War, Britain was deeply in ___.
Down
  1. 2. Both the French and the British fought for control of this region during the French and Indian War
  2. 4. Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of ___,so that the colonies might form a federal government
  3. 5. this allowed customs officers to enter any location in order to search for smuggled goods
  4. 7. In 1754 colonial delegates met with ___ leaders in Albany, New York in hopes of forming an alliance
  5. 9. The first direct tax levied on the colonists
  6. 11. By the end of the French and Indian War, the British had seized ___.
  7. 13. Bostonians referred to the British troops stationed there as ___ because of the red coats they wore.
  8. 15. a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers
  9. 17. The writs were general search warrants that enabled customs officers to enter any location during the day to look for evidence of ___.