Across
- 3. system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
- 6. the colonists of the Thirteen Colonies.
- 8. a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
- 9. form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body.
- 14. an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 16. attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America.
- 17. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
- 18. A theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
Down
- 1. a group of English people who came to America seeking religious freedom during the reign of King James I.
- 2. Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
- 4. a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede.
- 5. one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"
- 7. an American colonist who supported the British side during the American Revolution.
- 10. American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the first American flag.
- 11. English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices
- 12. included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.
- 13. required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
- 15. an act regulating stamp duty.