Free Printable American History Crossword Puzzle
Ready to print right now, with an answer key. Written clues, three grid sizes, a 54-clue american history list behind it, and a new layout every time you press the button. No account, nothing to install.
American History Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 54-clue american history list.
Every clue in the american history list
The puzzle above draws from these 54 clued american history words each time you press New puzzle — a different subset and layout every time, always from this same list.
- Movement to end slavery
- Presidents John and John Quincy
- Texas mission to remember
- Bill of Rights entry
- Erie or Panama waterway
- Domed home of Congress
- Virginia or Georgia, pre-statehood
- The South's breakaway government
- Senate plus House
- Cattle drive rider
- Jefferson's independence document
- Rule by the people
- Dust Bowl-era economic slump
- The Stars and Stripes
- Sumter or McHenry
- Wild West's unsettled edge
- Site of Lincoln's famous address
- Ellis Island arrival
- Virginia's early English settlement
- Patrick Henry's demand, or death
- President on the penny
- Colonist who backed the Crown
- Boston or Wounded Knee bloodshed
- Pilgrims' ship
- Colonial citizen-soldier force
- Colonial fighter ready in a flash
- Revolutionary War long gun
- Colonist who backed independence
- Plymouth Rock arrival
- Westward-bound trailblazer
- Sprawling Southern cotton estate
- Commander in chief
- Era when alcohol was banned
- Strict Massachusetts Bay colonist
- Transcontinental golden spike line
- British soldier of the Revolution
- What the flag stands for, per the Pledge
- Colonies' war for independence
- Southern states' withdrawal from the Union
- Jim Crow-era racial divide
- Upper house of Congress
- Homesteader on new land
- Forced servitude ended by the Civil War
- Horse-drawn Wells Fargo carrier
- Mississippi paddle-wheeler
- Right to vote, as won by women
- Colonists' gripe, without representation
- Oregon or Santa Fe route west
- Paris pact ending the Revolution, e.g
- Cherokee or Sioux nation
- The North, in the Civil War
- Cast a ballot
- Covered Conestoga transport
- President on the dollar bill
Which size to print
Easy lays 8 clues into an 11 × 11 grid, using words of three to seven letters. Medium is 13 × 13 with 12 clues and words up to nine letters. Hard is 15 × 15 with 16 clues and words from four to eleven letters, which is where the crossings start doing real work. The generator places longest words first and only keeps a layout where every word crosses at least one other, so a puzzle that comes out with fewer clues than the label promises simply ran out of words that fit — it is still a complete, connected crossword.
Printing it well
Print puts the grid and both clue lists on one sheet with the controls hidden. Print once with answers off, then press Answers and print again for the filled grid — that order gives you a clean puzzle and a separate key. The PNG is rendered at three times screen size and the answer file saves under its own name, so the two never get mixed up.
Using these in a book you sell
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