Unit 1: American Identity

4. The first "battle" of the American Revolution
5. Wrote "Common Sense" that inspired the colonists to declare indepedence
6. Father of the Constitution
9. This was included to ensure that Constitution would be ratified; 1st 10 amendments
11. The battle that led to French assistance in the Revolutionary War
12. Colonists who supported breaking away from British rule
14. This war led to the British collecting debt from colonies
16. Reaction to the Tea Act
19. The first rule of law in the United States; too weak
22. The act of British soldiers staying in the homes of the colonists
23. Violent event between colonists and British soldiers turned into propaganda to support the patriots

1. The city in which both the first and second Continental Congresses met
2. Colonists who preferred not to pick a side in the Revolutionary War
3. Colonists who supported the colonists staying with Britain
7. The action of preventing travel in or out of a place
8. The battle in which Cornwallis surrendered
10. Enlightenment thinker who believed that citizens and their government had a social contract
13. General of the Continental Army
15. This compromise included enslaved individuals into the population of Southern states
17. A tax on all written materials on the colonists
18. Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights
20. French general who assisted the Continental Army
21. Member of the Continental Congress who gets credit with drafting the Declaration of Independence