SS Ch.3: A More Perfect Union Study Guide Crossword

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  1. 3. Locke an English philosopher who believed that all people have natural rights including the rights to life, liberty, and property
  2. 5. of Confederation the first constitution of the United States
  3. 7. Branch one of the branches in government that create the laws, the lawmaking branch
  4. 8. of Rights A document that protected individual freedoms and also guaranteed certain freedoms and legal protection of personal property.
  5. 9. sharing of power between the federal and state governments
  6. 12. Morris a Philadelphia merchant who personally pledged large amounts of money for the war effort
  7. 14. Compromise proposed by Roger Sherman; called for a two-house legislature where the lower house, the House of Representatives, was proportional to the states' population and in the upper house, the Senate, each state would only have 2 members
  8. 16. and balances a system where the three branches of government have roles that check, or limit, the others so that no single branch can dominate the government
  9. 20. supporters of the new Constitution
  10. 21. Branch carry out the laws
  11. 22. Ordinance provided a democratic model for a national expansion where when the population of a territory reached 60,000, it could petition for statehood.
  12. 25. Rebellion a rebellion of angry farmers who were led by Daniel Shays to seize arms and ammunition at the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts
  13. 26. a French writer who wrote the Spirit of Laws that declared that the powers of government should be separated and balanced
  14. 27. Plan the plan that called for a two-house legislature, a chief executive chosen by the legislature and a court system
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  1. 1. Morris a powerful speaker and writer who wrote the final draft of the Constitution
  2. 2. Territory the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River where the Northwest Ordinance claimed
  3. 4. sovereignty government by consent of the governed
  4. 5. Those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution
  5. 6. a movement of the 1700's that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as the means to improve society
  6. 10. Bill of Rights provided another important model for Americans writing the Constitution; helped establish the idea that people have the rights and the power of the government should be limited
  7. 11. organized the first american antislavery society in Pennsylvania in 1774
  8. 13. the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory in 1803
  9. 15. a legislature that was divided into two parts, or houses
  10. 17. Compromise a compromise made where it was to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation
  11. 18. a period of time when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased
  12. 19. Madison introduced the Virginia Plan, the "Father of the Constitution" because he was the author of the basic plan of government that the Convention adopted
  13. 23. Branch interpret and enforce the laws
  14. 24. the freeing of individual enslaved persons