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Horizontales
The taxes that were being piled onto the colonists to help pay for Britain's _______ further angered them.
Having fought for freedom, the new nation had to structure a government that would ________ it.
Colonists had the ________ advantage during the fighting as they were familiar with the territory and readily had supplies.
In 1773, Parliament's Tea Act prompts the Boston Tea ___________.
It would be 125 more years before ________ would be given the same rights.
Six months before the patriots and _________ clashed in Massachusetts, The First Continental Congress gathered to consider complaints.
In 1765, The British Parliament taxes the Colonies with the __________ Act.
In 1778, France entered the war o the side of the Americans and it was __________ aid that helped Americans win a decisive victory at Yorktown.
Pilgrams and Puritans settled Massachusetts so they could practice their ___________ freely.
The Articles of Confederation confirmed the union of the thirteen states as one _________.
Americans were clearly _________ with some still being loyal to the crown and some wanting to be free of English rule.
In 1783, the Treaty of _______ officially brought the American Revolution to an end.
The Quakers and Catholics also fled England to leave the strict religious _____________.
The laws imposed by England onto the colonists were referred to as the _____________ Acts.
By the mid 18th century, the thirteen colonies had created a new __________.
"It is self-evident that all people have unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of __________."
American was a much more homogeneous group than the communities in Europe that contained _______ or low class paupers.
Verticales
"No taxation without representation" became the colonial battle ______.
The British had a clear ______ to keep the colonies within the British Empire.
Most colonial governments had two house legislatures, elected by _______.
During the 1700s, England had the world's most __________ army and navy.
In 1770, Colonists and British soldiers clash in the Boston _________.
Not all Americans were given the same rights. __________ Africa Americans were left out of the equation.
In 1791, Ten _________, the Bill of Rights, are added to the Constitution.
By the mid 1700s, most Americans took ________ in being in charge of their own governments.
Colonists had and expected more _________ than they had in England.
In 1775, The American __________ begins.
Each colony was fiercely ________, but together viewed themselves as completely different than societies across the Atlantic.
"American" society generally valued _________ and opportunity.
The _________ original states adopt the Articles of Confederation in 1777.
Not satisfied with the __________ of freedom embedded in the Constitution, many leaders urged the creation of the Bill of Rights.
African-American slaves and indentured servants also had __________ on their freedom.
The first ten amendments to the Constitution focus on guarantees of individual ___________, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to legal counsel and trial by jury.
Colonists wanted to move ______, but the Proclamation of 1763 forbid settlement beyond the Appalachian Mtns.
America won its independence and would be unique in the world of its day: a self-governing ___________.
In April of 1775, the words were exchanged for bullets as Massachusetts became the hotbed for __________.