U.S. History

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Across
  1. 2. First ten amendments protecting individual liberties
  2. 5. Supreme law of the United States
  3. 7. First national government of the United States
  4. 12. Law that banned trade with foreign nations
  5. 13. Changes or additions to the Constitution
  6. 17. The name of the war for independence
  7. 18. British practice of forcing sailors into naval service
  8. 19. Government formed by seceding Southern states
  9. 24. Ship that carried Pilgrims to North America
  10. 26. Colonists who supported independence from Britain
  11. 27. Northern states during the Civil War
  12. 28. Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union
  13. 29. First permanent English settlement in North America
  14. 30. Opponents of the Constitution who wanted stronger state power
Down
  1. 1. Division of power between national and state governments
  2. 3. Colonists who remained loyal to Britain
  3. 4. Period when Britain loosely enforced colonial laws
  4. 6. British lawmaking body that taxed the colonies
  5. 8. Trade system connecting Europe Africa and the Americas
  6. 9. Act Law that taxed printed materials in the colonies
  7. 10. Forced labor system that expanded in the colonies
  8. 11. Movement to end slavery in the United States
  9. 14. Economic system used by European empires to control colonies
  10. 15. Colonial protest involving refusal to buy British goods
  11. 16. Agreement meant to reduce sectional conflict
  12. 20. Document that announced independence in 1776
  13. 21. Supporters of the Constitution and strong national government
  14. 22. Growing division between North South and West
  15. 23. Taxes placed on imported goods
  16. 25. Order that freed enslaved people in Confederate states