US History - Beginning of Revolution

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Across
  1. 5. King of England (Britain) at time of Revolutionary War
  2. 7. The ___________ Branch Petition was a petition from the Continental Congress to the King claiming the colonists were still his loyal subjects and asked him to end hostilities.
  3. 8. (Two Words) Act that levied a tax on basically all official paper documents
  4. 9. Namecalling and throwing snowballs at a British soldier escalated into this event
  5. 11. Pamphlet by Thomas Paine arguing that not only Parliament but the King was enemy of the colonists.
  6. 12. The colony that was the center of much of the conflict immediately before the war and at the beginning. One of the four "Coercive Acts" specifically targeted it.
Down
  1. 1. The hill next to Bunker Hill where the "Battle of Bunker Hill" actually took place.
  2. 2. Town in Massachusetts where the first shots were fired in the Revolutionary War
  3. 3. The ______________ Congress was the governing body set up between the colonies right before and during the war.
  4. 4. Colonial soldiers ready "to stand at a minute's warning in case of alarm."
  5. 6. Author of the Declaration of Independence
  6. 10. General of American forces during the Revolutionary War, and future president.
  7. 13. The British good that famously got thrown into Boston Harbor