A Quilt of a Country

2. Tolerance is the word used most often when this kind of _____ succeeds...
4. ...it is held together by a concept, the understanding that all men are created _____ ... (1)
5. Many of the much-told stories of the most _____ nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry. (2)
9. but not America - unbreakable, _____ even in its hostilities. (2)
10. Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with _____ names, but not America...
13. Like many improbable ideas, when it actually works, it's a _____. (3)
17. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem to be in _____... (1)
19. What is partly taking pride in this unlikely ability to throw all of us together... (3)
20. Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not _____... (2)

1. ...all of us together in a country that is as _____ as a dozen countries. (3)
3. America is an unbelievable _____... (1)
6. Like many _____ ideas, when it actually works, it's a wonder.
7. What is the point of this ____ whole? (2)
8. ...like the crazy ____that have been one of America's great folk-art forms. (1)
11. Who said, "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image." (1)
12. ...a nation built of always _____, contrastig parts...
14. ...however tolerance seems to stand for little more than letting others live _____. (3)
15. What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of _____with another? (2)
16. _____ is the word used most often when this kind of coexistence succeeds... (3)
18. ...the United States was built in nobody's _____...