Across
- 2. First ten amendments protecting individual liberties
- 5. Supreme law of the United States
- 7. First national government of the United States
- 12. Law that banned trade with foreign nations
- 13. Changes or additions to the Constitution
- 17. The name of the war for independence
- 18. British practice of forcing sailors into naval service
- 19. Government formed by seceding Southern states
- 24. Ship that carried Pilgrims to North America
- 26. Colonists who supported independence from Britain
- 27. Northern states during the Civil War
- 28. Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union
- 29. First permanent English settlement in North America
- 30. Opponents of the Constitution who wanted stronger state power
Down
- 1. Division of power between national and state governments
- 3. Colonists who remained loyal to Britain
- 4. Period when Britain loosely enforced colonial laws
- 6. British lawmaking body that taxed the colonies
- 8. Trade system connecting Europe Africa and the Americas
- 9. Act Law that taxed printed materials in the colonies
- 10. Forced labor system that expanded in the colonies
- 11. Movement to end slavery in the United States
- 14. Economic system used by European empires to control colonies
- 15. Colonial protest involving refusal to buy British goods
- 16. Agreement meant to reduce sectional conflict
- 20. Document that announced independence in 1776
- 21. Supporters of the Constitution and strong national government
- 22. Growing division between North South and West
- 23. Taxes placed on imported goods
- 25. Order that freed enslaved people in Confederate states