American Founding Fathers Crossword Puzzle

About the American Founding Fathers Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle covers the leaders and ideas behind the founding of the United States. Find figures such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abigail Adams, alongside terms like Constitution, Liberty Bell, and Federalist Papers. It is suited to students learning early American history and anyone interested in the people and documents that shaped the nation.

This crossword draws on 30 clues about American Founding Fathers. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Author of a famous 1776 appeal to remember women (12 letters)
• •First ten amendments to the federal charter (12 letters)
• •Loose union under the nation's first governing pact (13 letters)
• •Massachusetts governor whose name inspired a redistricting term (13 letters)
• •Virginia author of many essays defending the new government (12 letters)
• •Pennsylvania writer of colonial protest letters (13 letters)
• •Philadelphia landmark cracked while symbolizing independence (11 letters)
• •Virginia orator who cried, "Give me liberty or give me death!" (12 letters)

Teaching this topic or planning a party? Make your own crossword with your own words and clues.