Unit 2 US History

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Across
  1. 1. Extremely flawed first constitution of the United States
  2. 3. Deadly confrontation between armed British soldiers and angry Bostonians
  3. 6. First Secretary to the Treasury and co-author of the Federalist Papers
  4. 10. Inventor, author, scientist, and civic leader who championed public institutions
  5. 11. Ended the Revolutionary War and gained recognition for America's Independence
  6. 12. Intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and natural rights
  7. 20. First Vice President and second President of the United States
  8. 21. Also known as the 7 years' War, put Britain in debt
  9. 22. Governing body of the 13 colonies during the War from 1775 to 1781
  10. 24. First Victim of the American Revolution in the Boston Massacre
  11. 25. The idea that the power of the federal government comes from the people it governs
  12. 27. Document asserting the separation of the United States from Great Britain
  13. 28. Protest, where the Sons of Liberty dumped tea cargo into the Boston Harbor
  14. 29. Author of "Common Sense," advocating for colonial independence
  15. 30. Idea that America is uniquely superior to other countries
Down
  1. 2. Delegates from 12 colonies meet to discuss the Intolerable Acts
  2. 4. Rights given to people at birth, such as the rights to life, liberty, and property
  3. 5. System of government where power is divided between the Federal and State governments
  4. 7. French General in the Continental Army, who secured French aid
  5. 8. First president of the United States
  6. 9. Primary author of the Declaration of Independence
  7. 13. Compromise that helped Anti-Federalists agree to the Constitution
  8. 14. A feeling of great pride for one's country, prominent during the revolution
  9. 15. Primary author of the Bill of Rights
  10. 16. Farmer uprising against high taxes and land seizures led by Daniel Shay
  11. 17. Prohibited colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains
  12. 18. Helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris and the Jay Treaty
  13. 19. Meeting between 12 state delegates to draft the new constitution
  14. 23. Placed a small but strict tax on molasses
  15. 26. System where the three branches of the federal government can regulate each other to prevent dominance