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Across 3. Meriwether ___________ and William Clark explored America from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. 7. The American flag has this many stripes. 9. This tribe helped the Pilgrims when they arrived in America. 10. The state that comes in alphabetical order right after North Dakota. 13. The four language skills are reading, writing, speaking, and ____________. 14. One of the two longest rivers in the United States. 15. In the Declaration of Independence, we are granted the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of _________. 16. I _________ allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 17. The "father of our country" is George ____________.

Down 1. The capital of Texas. 2. The Star-Spangled Banner is the United States' national _____________. 4. This freedom is one of the reasons colonists, or settlers, came to America. 5. The ocean on the east coast of the United States. 6. This native American woman helped lead two explorers. 8. A state that borders Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. 11. The Statue of Liberty has a crown with 7 points as a symbol of 7 __________. 12. Barack Obama is the current ___________ of the United States.