The Road to Independence

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (8)
  2. 3. Government in which people vote for their leaders (9)
  3. 6. Elected leader of a country (9)
  4. 8. The act of governing (14)
  5. 9. The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation (5)
  6. 11. A formal public statement (11)
  7. 13. People who make and enforce a country's laws (10)
  8. 14. A statement of fundamental ___ and privileges (12)
  9. 16. A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies (7)

Down

  1. 1. The successful ending of the American Revolution (12)
  2. 4. Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government (12)
  3. 5. The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca (10)
  4. 7. The state of being allied or ___ (13)
  5. 10. 3rd President of the United States (9)
  6. 12. Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication (plural) (8)
  7. 15. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch (8)