History Crossword

3. Dogood Benjamin Franklin's fake name used to write letters to a newspaper pretending to be an old woman.
6. of 1819 First real financial crisis in the United States.
8. war This war crippled British funds and caused them to tax the colonies.
9. This was the first real fight between the British and the Militia leading to the Revolutionary war.
13. _______ was the main reason the civil war started and split the North and the South.
15. First real settlement in the new world.
17. Massacre The massacre that took place which sparked nationalism throughout the country.
18. coats What the colonists called the British soldiers.
19. Slave Trade The name for the trade of slaves between America, England, and Africa.

1. six The amount of signers who signed the declaration of independence.
2. This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
4. Wilkes Booth This man was the killer of Abraham Lincoln
5. Secret Society that most of our founding fathers where part of.
7. The year 1492 ________ sailed to find a faster root to India but instead finds the Bahamas.
10. act This act set a tax on the colonists on items such as glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea. This was enacted in 1767.
11. The place where the pilgrims landed.
12. Purchase The purchase where the United States bought a large portion of central America from France for $15 Million.
14. Forge A Pennsylvania site where the allies where struck with harsh winters with limited resources during the Revolutionary war.
16. Crop that first made America prosper.