Roots of American Democracy

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Across
  1. 3. Home of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
  2. 7. Spanish explorers who conquered empires in Central/South America
  3. 9. England's first colony in America
  4. 10. He believed that the powers of government should be defined and limited
  5. 11. Puritans signed the Mayflower Compact to make a framework for government
Down
  1. 1. Settled by religious immigrants called Quakers
  2. 2. carta Document from 1215 that limited the powers of the English king
  3. 4. This man believed that all men have natural rights
  4. 5. Movement of great thinkers that influenced American colonists
  5. 6. Pilgrims and Puritans settled here
  6. 8. Italian explorer who reached the New World in 1492