Across
- 2. time period when people were thinking in a new way
- 4. French general who assisted the Americans
- 5. a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that spelled out reasond the Colonies should rebel
- 9. among other rights, gave Englishmen the right of free speech
- 11. Virginia planter who later becomes a general in the Revolutionary Army
- 12. finish the saying "life liberty and the pursuit of...."
Down
- 1. English Enlightenment thinker who inspired Jefferson's writings
- 3. the laws that govern the US today
- 6. the first set of laws that governed the United States
- 7. signed by King John, it limited the power of kings and set up a Parliament
- 8. the main author of the Declaration of Independence
- 10. the last battle of the Revolution
- 13. the first paragraph of the Declaration of independence
