US HISTORY/CIVICS PREP
Across
- 3. One of the first people to live in a new place.
- 8. The leader of a state.
- 10. Citizens who decide facts in a court trial.
- 11. Another word for freedom.
- 12. A place where judges decide if laws are broken.
- 13. Cloth with colors and shapes that stands for a country.
- 14. The written plan for how our government works.
- 15. A four-wheeled vehicle pulled by horses or oxen.
- 16. Money people pay to government for services.
- 18. To speak or act against something you think is unfair.
- 21. A written agreement or promise.
- 24. Government where people have the power to choose leaders.
- 27. The states that stayed together during the Civil War.
- 29. A rule made by government.
- 30. The city where a state or national government is based.
- 31. The event when people vote.
- 32. Half of Congress where each state has two members.
- 33. One of the 50 parts of the United States.
- 35. Freedom from control by another country.
- 37. A person who belongs to and has rights in a country.
Down
- 1. A written peace agreement between countries.
- 2. When people fight to change their government.
- 3. A colonist who wanted America free from Britain.
- 4. Things the law says people may have or do.
- 5. Ship that carried the Pilgrims in 1620.
- 6. Tracks and trains that move people and goods.
- 7. A colonist who stayed loyal to Britain.
- 9. To choose a leader or law in an election.
- 10. Fair treatment under the law.
- 17. A change or addition to the Constitution.
- 19. Paper label that showed a tax was paid in colonial times.
- 20. The edge of settled land where new land is explored.
- 22. Elected group that makes national laws.
- 23. A written idea for a new law.
- 25. A person who travels to learn about new places.
- 26. First permanent English town in America, started in 1607.
- 28. The elected leader of the United States.
- 30. A place settled and controlled by a far-away country.
- 34. The right to make choices without unfair limits.
- 36. An English settler who came for religious freedom.