US History Chapter 6

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Across
  1. 8. General who replaced Governor Hutchinson
  2. 11. British general who failed to capture Washington at Trenton
  3. 12. Where British troops fired on and killed several colonists
  4. 13. Prime Minister who sympathized with the colonists
  5. 14. Act that forced colonists to house British troops
  6. 15. Where about 70 minutemen stood their ground against the British soldiers
  7. 18. Said "Give me liberty, or give me death"
  8. 21. Name for the colonists who fought for independence
  9. 25. Colonists name for the unfair taxes placed on them by the British
  10. 26. Colonists who remained faithful to England
  11. 27. Helped George Washington drill the troops
Down
  1. 1. Frenchman who became Washington's aide
  2. 2. Suggested forming the first Committee of Correspondence
  3. 3. Commander and Chief of the Colonial Army
  4. 4. President of the Second Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration
  5. 5. Leader of the Green Mountain Boys
  6. 6. Provisional government established in 1774
  7. 7. Where Washington and the troops spent a difficult winter
  8. 9. Volunteer militia ready to fight at a moment's notice
  9. 10. Taxes put on colonial imports from Britain
  10. 16. Prime Minister who did not sympathize with the colonists
  11. 17. Author of Common Sense
  12. 19. Colonial General who captured Burgoyne's troops at Saratoga
  13. 20. Place where the Patriots were hiding and storing ammunition
  14. 22. Led committee to write the Declaration of Independence
  15. 23. Event where disguised colonists threw tea into the harbor
  16. 24. German mercenaries