This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of American Revolution & Colonial Era has 20 clues. Answers range from 8 to 21 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
a war between France and England that erupted in 1754 in North America and ended in 1763
law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
A form of government in which people elect representatives to create and enforce laws
The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys
law placing a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies
1Required colonists to house British soldiers
1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.
Groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution
groups of American women patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods
laws passed in 1767 that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
Led an uprising of about 1,000 Massachusetts farmers
Virginia colonist who demanded "give me liberty or give me death"
leader of a patriot group of fighters known as the Green Mountain Boys
U.S. army general in the Revolutionary War who later turned traitor
author of Common Sense, who wrote that citizens, not monarchs, should make laws
believed women were not equally being represented by American Leaders
British general in the Revolutionary war, was defeated at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.
Led the British troops at New York, also went on to take Philadelphia.
British general defeated by American forces at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
Leader, inventor, printer, and philosopher who secured French alliance