The American Revolution

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  1. 3. Legislative body of England, and later Great Britain.
  2. 5. Second president of the United States, led the movement for independence.
  3. 7. Allowed British East India company to sell tea directly in the colonies, took money from colonial tea merchants.
  4. 8. Principal author of the Declaration of independence.
  5. 9. A famous pamphlet Thomas Paine wrote.
  6. 11. A person who warned militia that the British troops were coming.
  7. 12. The group of merchants, shop keepers, and craftsmen who successfully opposed the Stamp Act by establishing networks to boycott British goods.
  8. 14. The American army formed in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress and led by General George Washington.
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  1. 1. Taxed sugar used to produce rum.
  2. 2. Washington's right hand man,fought in the revolutionary war one of the founding fathers of The United States.
  3. 4. Civilians taunt British Soldiers, 5 Bostonian's dead, British soldiers found not guilty.
  4. 6. the 1773 incident in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped their cargo in protest of British taxes on the colonists.
  5. 8. Taxed tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint
  6. 10. An American colonist who supported the right of the American Colonies to govern themselves.
  7. 13. An American colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution.