American History

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