Across |
6. | Washington and his army attacked a camp with Hessian soldiers in it and captured them all |
7. | People who remained loyal to Great Britain |
9. | soldiers paid to fight |
10. | tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and most other printed materials. An official govt. Stamp had to be stamped on it to show the taxes were payed |
14. | When an army surrounds a city and doesn't let anything in or out |
15. | highest official of a parliamentary government |
16. | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine |
18. | Refusal to buy certain things or use certain services |
20. | Document sent to King George III that begged the king to stop fighting |
22. | Ended the French and Indian War in the New World and the Seven Years’ War in England. France lost Canada and all their terrain east of the Mississippi river and the British gained the land. |
24. | public officials must make decisions based on the law, not on their own personal wishes |
27. | Began after the battles of Concord and Lexington and the Boston Tea Party |
28. | selling scarce items as unreasonably high prices |
29. | The last battle in the Revolutionary War |
30. | Fight on Bunker Hill and neighboring hill that the British won but at considerable casualties |
31. | A steady increase in prices over time |
32. | It looked like the British had won, but then the colonists surprise attacked them and killed a lot of the British soldiers |
33. | Colonists were throwing snowballs at British soldiers because they were pissed about the taxes and the soldiers retaliated and killed 5 colonists |
34. | Indian’s renelled against the British in the spring of 1763. It was named after one of the Ottowa leaders. The Indians destroyed every British fort west of the Appalacian mountaians besides two |