Revolutionary war

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence (7)
  2. 4. A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies (7)
  3. 5. The legislature of the United States government (8)
  4. 9. Demonstration by citizens of ___ who raided three British ships in ___ harbor and dumped (14)
  5. 11. The first important battle of the American War of Independence which was fought at Breed's ___ (10)
  6. 12. American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer who supported the American colonist's fight (11)
  7. 14. A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland (plural) (8)
  8. 15. A light midafternoon meal of ___ and sandwiches or cakes (3)

Down

  1. 2. The people of Great Britain (7)
  2. 3. 2nd President of the United States (9)
  3. 6. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (8)
  4. 7. A ___ in Charlestown that was the site of the battle of Bunker ___ in 1775 (10)
  5. 8. American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress (11)
  6. 10. American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington (10)
  7. 13. An ___ passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by (8)