John Adams by Jane Sutcliffe 2006

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Across
  1. 3. which of John's sons became a US president?
  2. 4. a territory of people that are under the control of a distant country
  3. 6. the group of men representing the colonies "Continental _____"
  4. 9. the war was known as the American _____
  5. 11. last name of the second US president
  6. 14. another word for "freedom"
  7. 15. John's wife
  8. 16. John Adams's profession
Down
  1. 1. who authored the Declaration of Independence
  2. 2. the country that owned the colonies now in the US
  3. 4. the first set of laws in the US
  4. 5. town where John was born
  5. 7. when men snuck onto ships and dumped its cargo in the Boston Harbor
  6. 8. how Adams traveled to Philadelphia
  7. 10. last name of the first US president
  8. 12. the principle that the government should have 3 equal branches for this reason "checks and ___"
  9. 13. what the colonists were most upset about