American History
Across
- 3. Join or Die was the first political -------
- 5. division of legislature in the new American government
- 8. of Independence: a document that was mainly written by Thomas Jefferson, July 4
- 9. name the part of the Bill of rights that was added to the Constitution
- 10. commander-in-chief in the Revolutionary war, first president of the United States
- 13. first permanent English settlement of 100 English men, capital of the Virginia colony
- 14. Benjamin Franklin founded a famous university that belongs to IVY league schools. Where is this university located?
Down
- 1. British people supported their growing empire by taking rum and molasses from America, it was -------- without representation
- 2. a holiday that originated in colonial times, giving thanks to the Native Americans for teaching colonials how to grow maize
- 4. name a substance that was banned in America until 1920 (it was written in the Bill of Rights)
- 6. name of the country that helped America win the Revolutionary war
- 7. region of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine named very similarly to an important country in Europe.
- 11. the city where the famous American witch trials were held
- 12. the act of admitting to a crime
- 15. Benjamin Franklin published it for the first time in 1733 and continued for 25 years