Crossword Puzzle: 1789

1. second President of the United States and the first Vice President
4. orator during the movement for independence in Virginia
8. author of the Declaration of Independence
11. opposed ratification of the Constitution
14. one of the Founding Fathers, $100
15. a formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.
16. nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government

2. an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored, muzzleloading, and fired from the shoulder
3. support Federalism
5. an instance of revolving
6. first president of the United States
7. formal or official change made to a law
9. officer of high rank in the army
10. American political theorist and statesman, who served as the fourth President of the United States
12. American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
13. month that the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England