Across
- 8. Mountain range designated as the “proclamation line” over which colonists were forbidden to cross.
- 10. According to the Declaration of Independence, a government’s power, if it is just, must come from this.
- 12. English Law requiring that specific government-issued stamps be purchased and attached to printed matter of any kind.
- 13. Term that refers to the process by which a legislative body will reflect the will of the people. Many colonists refused to accept taxation without this.
- 15. City with a tea-flavored harbor in 1773
Down
- 1. colonist’s nickname for the Coercive acts imposed by the British
- 2. English Law requiring colonists to offer housing for soldiers in barracks, inns, or other public buildings.
- 3. Book by Thomas Paine that emphatically argued for American independence.
- 4. English Law placing high tariffs on high-in-demand imports to the colonies such as sugar, tea, coffee, and wine.
- 5. Main author of the Declaration of Independence
- 6. British Prime minister obsessed with taxing the American colonies
- 7. City where the Continental Congress met.
- 9. According to this future president, “The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the hearts and minds of the people”
- 11. Under this, England could enact whatever law it wished “to bind the colonies and people of America”
- 14. A popular way to avoid paying taxes to the British.