Free Printable American History Word Search
Aimed at US history units from about fourth grade up. It runs from JAMESTOWN and the MAYFLOWER through the REVOLUTION, the CONSTITUTION and GETTYSBURG to SUFFRAGE and PROHIBITION. Answer key included, and New puzzle lays out a different grid from the same 58 words every time.
Free and unlimited, no account. Press “New puzzle” for a different grid from the same 58 words.
How the american history words fit each size
55 of the 58 american history words fit the 11 × 11 easy grid. CONSTITUTION, EMANCIPATION and INDEPENDENCE are too long for it, so they only turn up on the 15 × 15 medium and 19 × 19 hard grids.
12 words have five letters or fewer, WAR, FLAG and FORT among them, and those are the first ones young solvers spot. The longest, CONSTITUTION, EMANCIPATION and INDEPENDENCE, are the last to be found.
A way to use the american history word search
Once the grid is done, have students put ten of the circled words in date order, for example JAMESTOWN, REVOLUTION, EMANCIPATION, SUFFRAGE, as a quick timeline exercise.
All 58 words in the american history list
- ABOLITION
- ADAMS
- ALAMO
- AMENDMENT
- CANAL
- CAPITOL
- COLONY
- CONFEDERACY
- CONGRESS
- COWBOY
- DECLARATION
- DEMOCRACY
- DEPRESSION
- FLAG
- FORT
- FRONTIER
- GETTYSBURG
- IMMIGRANT
- JAMESTOWN
- LIBERTY
- LINCOLN
- LOYALIST
- MASSACRE
- MAYFLOWER
- MILITIA
- MINUTEMAN
- MUSKET
- PATRIOT
- PILGRIM
- PIONEER
- PLANTATION
- PRESIDENT
- PROHIBITION
- PURITAN
- RAILROAD
- REDCOAT
- REPUBLIC
- REVOLUTION
- SECESSION
- SEGREGATION
- SENATE
- SETTLER
- SLAVERY
- STAGECOACH
- STEAMBOAT
- SUFFRAGE
- TAXES
- TRAIL
- TREATY
- TRIBE
- UNION
- VOTE
- WAGON
- WASHINGTON
- CONSTITUTION
- INDEPENDENCE
- EMANCIPATION
- WAR
Printing and the answer key
Print hides the controls; the PNG is rendered at 3× so letters stay crisp, and the answer key saves under its own filename. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.
