Early American History

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Persons who administer the law (9)
  2. 4. Public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops (7)
  3. 5. The trait of avoiding excesses (10)
  4. 8. The act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope (9)
  5. 9. The act of ___ a system or practice or institution (9)
  6. 10. The state of being under the control of another person (7)
  7. 11. A member of the United States House of ___ (14)
  8. 13. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's (12)
  9. 14. A newly established colony (10)
  10. 15. The branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption (9)

Down

  1. 1. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving (10)
  2. 3. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence (7)
  3. 6. The political orientation of those who hold that a ___ is the best form of government (13)
  4. 7. A formal public statement (11)
  5. 10. A partiality for some particular place (12)
  6. 12. A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution (8)