American History
Across
- 3. this is the age you have to be to vote
- 5. the number of states in the United States
- 7. the French ruler that sold Louisiana to the United States
- 9. this part of the government is made up of the president and his cabinet
- 12. this is the ruler the colonists wanted to gain their freedom from
- 14. these explorers went all over the southwest United States and Mexico
- 16. this town is where most of the action happened leading up to the Revolutionary War
- 17. when factories started mass producing products and employing many workers
- 22. this is the city where Independence Hall is - where the Declaration of Independence was written
- 23. the document that declared the United States was in independent country
- 24. this future president was the main writer of the Declartion of Independence.
Down
- 1. what the British soldiers were called by the colonists
- 2. the main explorers of the Corps of Discovery
- 4. the native American woman who helped explore the Louisiana Purchase
- 6. this part of the legislative branch is based on population
- 8. colonists dumped this into the Boston Harbor.
- 10. the rive that flows into the port of New Orleans
- 11. these two towns are the where the first shots of the Revolutionary War occurred
- 13. this amendment protects you from having to incriminate yourself
- 14. this amendment gives you the right to bear arms
- 15. this part of the government writes the laws
- 18. the Revolutionary General became the first president of the United States
- 19. this is the document that is the basis for all our government
- 20. this part of the legislative branch has two representative for each state
- 21. this amendment protects your freedoms of speech, religion, and press