US History

4. was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
8. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons
9. was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States
10. an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents)
11. people who remain loyal to the established ruler or government, especially in the face of a revolt
12. members of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church

1. the state of being a slave
2. was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World
3. a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century
5. A major battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1777 in northern New York state
6. known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people
7. 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution