Early America - American Studies

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Across
  1. 2. Powers that are shared between the Federal and State governments
  2. 4. The person who believed that you were born with rights that cannot be taken away
  3. 6. A system of government where power is shared between federal, local, and state governments
  4. 10. Powers that are held by the federal government
  5. 12. Went to America in search for Gold
  6. 13. The first system of government the U.S. adopted
  7. 14. The place where the French originally settled when they came to North America
  8. 17. The type of government that is ruled by royalty
  9. 18. The Amount of colonies that were originally founded in America
  10. 20. Went to America and sold beaver furs
  11. 22. A settlement established by a country away from its homeland
  12. 23. The allies of the French when the French were trying to take land from the 13 colonies
Down
  1. 1. The place that Christopher Columbus believed he landed when he first came to America
  2. 2. One of the first European "discoverers" of America
  3. 3. Powers that are held by the States
  4. 5. The king who was in power when the colonies declared independence from Britain
  5. 7. The last part of the Declaration of Independence
  6. 8. The thing that frustrated the colonists the most with Britain
  7. 9. The person who first drafted the Declaration of Independence
  8. 11. What the French and Spanish spread to the natives when they first came to North America (killing many of them)
  9. 13. The document that we still use as the foundation of our government to this day
  10. 15. The location where colonists dumped British Tea into the harbor as a protest to taxes
  11. 16. The town where the first "massacre" happened in America, further building tension between America and England
  12. 19. America's first president
  13. 21. A person who lives in a settlement away from their homeland while still claiming their previous citizenship