Across
- 3. Author of Poor Richard's Almanac
- 5. First professional composer born in America
- 8. Helped introduce the smallpox inoculation
- 9. Idea that the colonies existed solely for the good of the mother country
- 12. Paddle-shaped board used to help children learn to read
- 14. Two house legislative body
- 16. Name given to the trade routes the colonies followed
- 17. Largest group of settlers in the colonies
- 18. Colonies with Congregational churches and town government
- 20. Predicted an eclipse in 1789
- 21. Most widely used textbook
Down
- 1. School founded by Benjamin Franklin
- 2. Roads that connected the major cities
- 3. First regularly published weekly newspaper
- 4. Thing that determined an individual's social class
- 6. City founded by the Moravians
- 7. Largest city in colonial America
- 10. Natural pass through the Appalachian Mountains
- 11. German immigrants with a zeal for missionary work
- 13. The "bread colonies" with a mixture of town and county governments
- 15. Colonies with Anglican churches and producers of rice and indigo
- 19. Chief executive officer of each colony