American History

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  1. 5. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
  2. 6. forming or belonging to a continent
  3. 9. a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions
  4. 11. a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or television company to gather information
  5. 12. a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising
  6. 14. an exact copy, especially of written or printed material
  7. 15. the process or art of cutting or carving a design on a hard surface, especially so as to make a print
  8. 19. a German printer and journalist in New York City, who printed The New York Weekly Journal.
  9. 20. a person who typesets text
  10. 21. source, works that analyze, assess, or interpret a historical event era or phenomenon
  11. 22. the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views
  12. 23. a large sheet of paper printed on one side only. Historically used for announcing events or proclamations, as posters, or advertisements.
  13. 24. a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due to perceived oppression or political incompetence
  14. 25. the ability to read and write
  15. 26. of speech, the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint
  16. 27. a system of money in general use in a particular country
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  1. 1. a person’s name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification
  2. 2. a journal or newspaper
  3. 3. source, a first-hand or contemporary account of an event or topic
  4. 4. a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation
  5. 5. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country
  6. 7. free from outside control; not depending on another’s authority.
  7. 8. a person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text, particularly a newspaper or magazine
  8. 10. a person whose job or business is commercial printing
  9. 13. press, a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink
  10. 16. a heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine
  11. 17. Franklin, a founding father, and an American polymath active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.
  12. 18. Act, an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
  13. 20. a machine with keys for producing alphabetical characters, numerals, and typographical symbols one at a time on paper inserted around a roller