History Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing (5)
  2. 5. The people of Great Britain (7)
  3. 6. Town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was (9)
  4. 9. Sound practical judgment (11)
  5. 13. A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies (7)
  6. 15. The coldest season of the year (6)

Down

  1. 1. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence (7)
  2. 2. Armed fighting between countries (3)
  3. 3. The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca (10)
  4. 7. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy (8)
  5. 8. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (plural) (5)
  6. 10. A British law of 1765 that taxed printed materials in the American colonies. (8)
  7. 11. Capital of the state of New Hampshire (7)
  8. 12. Animal you can ride that gallops (plural) (6)
  9. 14. Someone who betrays his country by committing treason (7)