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Down: 1) made the first official flag of the US2) those who wanted America to to be free from Britain's heavy control3) Leader of British armies in the South5) second meeting held in Philadelphia in May 1775 where two important decisions were made8) War between the British and the French for control of land along the Ohio River10) document signed by England giving up the American colonies and making them officially free and independent12) incident in which a band of colonists dressed like Mohawk Indians dumped tea into Boston Harbor in protest to Britain's tax on tea15) gives Americans the following freedoms: religion, speech, press and assembly16) river along which both France and Britain had claimed lands17) a government ruled by a king or queen18) branch of government that enforces laws20) German soldiers23) required documents purchased by the colonists to have special stamps affixed to them, proving a tax had been paid24) Virginian who said "Give me liberty, or give me death".26) Boston patriot and sliversmith famous for his midnight ride to warn the colonists28) branch of government that makes laws29) first Vice President and Second President of the US32) branch of government that interprets laws Across: 4) battle location where the first shot in the American War for Independence was fired6) commander of all British forces in North America during the French and Indian War7) did the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence9) the first ten amendments to the constitution, listing the rights or freedoms the constitution gives to Americans11) king of England during the American War for Independence13) July 4, 177614) Name of our nation's first capital19) rung to call people of the town together21) money that people pay their government for use in helping to run the government22) commander in chief of the continental army; first president of the US25) plan of government our country still follows today27) where Washington and his army spent the harsh winter of 1777-7830) Angry encounter between colonists and British soldiers in Boston in March of 177031) leader of the Green Mountain Boys who took Fort Ticonderoga fro the British32) president of the Second Continental Congress; first to sign the Declaration of Independence33) first plan of government the states agreed upon34) Victory of Washington's that led to the surrender of the British army35) did the most important work at the Constitutional Convention; fourth President of the US36) Massachusetts men who said they could be ready to fight at a minute's notice37) First major battle in the War for Independence38) declared that the thirteen colonies should be free from England and independent states39) the meeting of colonists in Philadelphia to request that Britain respect their rights as Englishmen
 

 

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