Independence Day

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Across
  1. 2. The list of complaints against the King in the Declaration
  2. 3. The system of government the colonists rejected in 1776
  3. 7. The heavy cannons used by both sides in the Revolution
  4. 8. The supreme authority the colonies claimed over themselves
  5. 11. His overssize signature became a synonym for signing your name
  6. 13. The opening lines of the Declaration begin with these words
  7. 14. ___ Congress: the governing body that declared independence
  8. 15. What colonists renounced when they declared independence
  9. 17. A formal change or addition to the Constitution
  10. 19. The colonists' weapon against British goods before the war
  11. 20. The formal process of approving the Constitution
Down
  1. 1. The city where the Declaration of Independence was signed
  2. 4. Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published in this format
  3. 5. The Massachusetts town where the first shots were fired
  4. 6. He owned slaves yet wrote that all men are created equal
  5. 9. Colonial militia ready to fight at a moment's notice
  6. 10. The word the colonists used to describe British rule
  7. 12. What signing the Declaration risked for the Founding Fathers
  8. 16. The nickname for British soldiers during the Revolution
  9. 18. The political union formed by the thirteen states