American History

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Across
  1. 2. name of the country that helped America win the Revolutionary war
  2. 4. Join or Die was the first political -------
  3. 8. region of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine named very similarly to an important country in Europe.
  4. 9. name a substance that was banned in America until 1920 (it was written in the Bill of Rights)
  5. 10. Benjamin Franklin founded a famous university that belongs to IVY league schools. Where is this university located?
  6. 13. commander-in-chief in the Revolutionary war, first president of the United States
  7. 14. British people supported their growing empire by taking rum and molasses from America, it was -------- without representation
  8. 15. the city where the famous American witch trials were held
Down
  1. 1. first permanent English settlement of 100 English men, capital of the Virginia colony
  2. 3. legislature in the new American government that consists of 2 chambers
  3. 5. a holiday that originated in colonial times, giving thanks to the Native Americans for teaching colonials how to grow maize
  4. 6. name the part of the Bill of rights that was added to the Constitution
  5. 7. a document that was mainly written by Thomas Jefferson, July 4, ----------- of Independence
  6. 11. Benjamin Franklin published it for the first time in 1733 and continued for 25 years
  7. 12. the act of admitting to a crime