From colony to country

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Across
  1. 2. money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services
  2. 6. a person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons
  3. 8. to say something officially or publicly
  4. 10. the activity of buying and selling or of exchanging goods or services between people or countries
  5. 12. in a way that shows that you are determined to do something despite difficulties
  6. 14. to become greater in size, number
  7. 15. the system of laws and basic principles that a state, a country or an organization is governed by
  8. 16. to start something, such as an organization or an institution
  9. 17. very quickly
  10. 19. to free a country or a person from the control of somebody else
  11. 20. the state in which somebody suffers or dies because they have no food
  12. 21. existing all the time
Down
  1. 1. the group of people who are elected to make and change the laws of a country
  2. 3. to succeed in reaching a particular goal
  3. 4. to change your appearance so that people cannot recognize you
  4. 5. the time of year when the crops are gathered in on a farm
  5. 7. to refuse to accept something and try to stop it from happening
  6. 9. a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country
  7. 11. at the end of a period of time or a series of events
  8. 13. the right to vote in political elections
  9. 18. (of a country) freedom from political control by other countries