Across
- 2. The list of complaints against the King in the Declaration
- 3. The system of government the colonists rejected in 1776
- 7. The heavy cannons used by both sides in the Revolution
- 8. The supreme authority the colonies claimed over themselves
- 11. His overssize signature became a synonym for signing your name
- 13. The opening lines of the Declaration begin with these words
- 14. ___ Congress: the governing body that declared independence
- 15. What colonists renounced when they declared independence
- 17. A formal change or addition to the Constitution
- 19. The colonists' weapon against British goods before the war
- 20. The formal process of approving the Constitution
Down
- 1. The city where the Declaration of Independence was signed
- 4. Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published in this format
- 5. The Massachusetts town where the first shots were fired
- 6. He owned slaves yet wrote that all men are created equal
- 9. Colonial militia ready to fight at a moment's notice
- 10. The word the colonists used to describe British rule
- 12. What signing the Declaration risked for the Founding Fathers
- 16. The nickname for British soldiers during the Revolution
- 18. The political union formed by the thirteen states