Across
- 5. The exclusive right to sell tea to the American colonies that Parliament gave the East India Company.
- 6. Colonists who remained loyal to the king during the split over British rule.
- 9. The national government created by the Constitution to hold the thirteen states together.
- 10. The gathering of delegates from the colonies that first met in Philadelphia in 1774.
- 11. Men such as Jefferson, Franklin and Washington who steered America towards independence.
Down
- 1. The formal document written by Thomas Jefferson, approved on 4 July 1776.
- 2. The Massachusetts city that was the centre of the strongest opposition to British rule.
- 3. The slogan principle the colonists demanded — “no taxation without ___”.
- 4. The set of laws written by James Madison establishing how US politics would function, approved in June 1788.
- 7. The 1765 law requiring colonists to buy special stamped paper for legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. (5,3)
- 8. The US parliament that had sent Benjamin Franklin to France as ambassador.