250 Years

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Across
  1. 3. A well known myth has George Washington cutting down what kind of tree?
  2. 5. 1964 law key to integration and making illegal employment discrimination
  3. 6. These Airmen were the first African American Military Aviators during WWII
  4. 7. American Aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur
  5. 9. Abolitionist and activist Harriet
  6. 11. Current amount of Amendments in the US Constitution
  7. 15. City where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written
  8. 19. Collective name for a decentralized network of safe houses and routes used to escape to free states.
  9. 20. Amount of Lanterns hung in a church steeple as a warning
  10. 22. ________ Purchase
  11. 23. Final major land engagement of the revolutionary war was the Siege of ________
Down
  1. 1. Surprise military maneuver executed on Christmas Day by Washington
  2. 2. We hold these truths to be self _____
  3. 4. Item used by Benjamin Franklin to prove Lightning was Static Electricity
  4. 8. Prominent name in Women's Suffrage Movement
  5. 10. Civil Rights Leader and a founder of the NAACP Ida B. _____
  6. 12. July 4th
  7. 13. First 10 Amendments
  8. 14. Author of the poem "Paul Revere's Ride"
  9. 16. Gift of friendship from France
  10. 17. Signer of the Declaration of Independence John ____
  11. 18. __________ Proclamation
  12. 21. Location of famous tea party
  13. 22. Land of _______