CH5 Review Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| writs of assistance | legal document permitting searches |
| Loyalist | person loyal to the king |
| Paul Revere | shouted “The British are coming” |
| Crispis Attucks | victim in the Boston Massacre |
| Coercive Acts | closed Boston Harbor |
| Stamp Act | taxed most printed materials |
| List of Natural Rights | listed the rights of citizens |
| John Hancock | first to sign the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | wrote Common Sense |
| Proclamation of 1763 | prohibited colonists from moving west of Appalachian Mountains |
| Sugar Act | British government attempted to stop smuggling of molasses |
| Ethan Allen | led the Green Mountain Boys |
| George III | opposed any compromise with the American colonists |
| Abigail Adams | wanted increased rights for women |
| Thomas Jefferson | main author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Townshend Acts | taxed imported goods to the colonies |
| Daughters of Liberty | protested the Townshend Acts |
| Paul Revere’s engraving | increased anti |
| Boston Tea Party | dramatic act of defiance by Sons of Liberty and Patriots |
| George III | said that “blows must decide” who would rule America |
| William Dawes | warned John Hancock that the British were coming |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | the British learned that defeating the colonists would not be easy |
| Olive Branch Petition | asked the king to protect the colonists’ rights |
| Benedict Arnold | led an American attack on Quebec |
| George Washington | commander of the Continental Army |
| Second Continental Congress | governed the colonies |
| Boston Massacre | used as propaganda against the British |
| Lexington and Concord | refers to the shot heard “round the world” |
| Loyalists | colonists who did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion |
| Patriots | colonists who were determined to fight the British for independence |
| Olive Branch Petition | colonists expressed their desire for peace |
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