American Revolution

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland (8)
  2. 6. A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland (plural) (8)
  3. 7. The practice of being unjust or unfair (9)
  4. 8. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (13)
  5. 9. State capital and largest city of Massachusetts (6)
  6. 10. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (5)
  7. 11. A formal public statement (11)
  8. 12. Incapable of being tolerated or endured (11)
  9. 13. Country in the UK whose capital is London (7)
  10. 14. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial (11)
  11. 15. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving (10)

Down

  1. 1. The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca (10)
  2. 2. The successful ending of the American Revolution (12)
  3. 3. To bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation (6)
  4. 5. The legislature of the United States government (8)
  5. 6. The state of being allied or ___ (13)