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Down: 1) Hired soldiers3) Draft of the Articles of Confederation; submitted in 1754 6) dealt with taxing goods that were being imported [Townshend Acts]8) Lived at Monticello; wrote the Declaration of Independence; Second governor of Virginia; 3rd President of the US; designed the buildings of the University of Virginia11) An act signed by 200 merchants pledging not to buy any British goods until Parliament repeals the Stamp Act; colonial merchants and planters signed this agreement to promise to stop importing good taxed by the Townshend Acts14) Frenchman; founded Detroit in 1701; done to thwart the English settlers from settling in Ohio River valley15) Drafted a Declaration of Colonial Rights and Grievances; also wrote the series of “letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania” in 1767 to protest the Townshend Acts; although an outspoken critic of British policies toward the colonies, Dickenson opposed the revolution; as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, refused to sign the Declaration of Independence16) British general during the American Revolution; captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the Battle of Saratoga in 177717) War between England and Spain which began a series of European wars fought throughout the world20) taxations on personal goods and property21) French general defeated at the Battle of Quebec26) Prussian organizational genius; turned raw colonial recruits into tough professional soldiers27) British Crown’s reserved rights to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial assemblies if such laws worked mischief with the mercantilist system39) Famous chief of the Ottawa Indians; led rebellion against the British Across: 2) Scottish political economist and philosopher; Wealth of Nations laid the foundations for classical free market economic theory (belief that government should not interfere with economics); advocated laissez faire and founder of “invisible hand” theory 4) The political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government5) American revolutionary leader and pamphleteer born in England; supported the American fight for independence; supported the French Revolution7) Arises out of work and competition rather than birth, education, or special privilege9) The first president of the United States10) Law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalation Mountains12) American naval commander in the American Revolution13) Family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois people18) Treaty between England and the colonies that formally ended the American Revolution19) John Adam’s wife; appealed to her husband to protect the rights of women; member of the Daughters of Liberty22) Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556); as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism23) Economic theory that all parts of an economy should be coordinate for the good of the whole state; economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by exporting more than importing24) Leader of the American Revolution; famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the colonies25) King of France from 1643-171528) French Protestants 29) British Prime Minister during the Revolution; passed the Coercive Acts; greatly supported the king to the extent where Britain would only be ruled by the king30) German soldiers who fought for the British31) Soldier of the American Revolution; troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British32) American patriot, writer, printer, and inventor; during the Revolutionary War, he persuaded the French to assist the colonists33) Founder of the Sons of Liberty; one of the most vocal patriots; zealous defender of the common peoples’ rights; organizer of underground propaganda committees 34) First significant British Victory of the Seven Years War35) Name of French colony in Canada36) Document recording the proclamation of the 2nd Continental Congress; July 4th 1776; Asserted the independence of the colonies from Great Britain37) Colonists who wanted independence from Britain38) British loyalist whose brother was attacked by the Sons of Liberty for being a tax collector; wrote a letter of the horrors he faced during the ordeal40) Louisianans descended from the French Acadians in Nova Scotia41) Led the British army; tried to take Fort Stanwix but Benedict Arnold drove him back42) Commander of the British forces during the American Revolution43) British writer who attacked the Revolution as application of blind rationalism that ignored historic realities of political development44) American colonists who remained loyal to Britain; opposed the war for independence45) British Prime Minister who raised a storm of protests by making and passing the Stamp Act46) Massachusetts attorney and politician; strong believer in colonial independence; argued against Stamp Act and was involved in various patriot groups; as a delegate from Mass. he urged the Second Continental Congress to declare independence; helped draft and pass the Declaration of Independence; later served as the 2nd President of the US47) Leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American colonies48) Turning point of the American Revolution; important because it convinced the French to give the US military support; lifted American spirits; ended British control of New England by taking control of the Hudson River; most importantly showed the French that the Americans had the potential to beat their enemy
 

 

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