Across
- 2. of Rights The first ten amendments to the U.S Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens's rights and freedoms
- 3. an opponent of a strong central government
- 5. the group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisers
- 6. Court House town near Appomattox , Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, thus ending the Civil War
- 8. the drafting of citizens for military service
Down
- 1. the Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the Union
- 2. Tea Party the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
- 3. movement to end slavery
- 4. a northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
- 7. Sense a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain