8.20-8.30

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Across
  1. 3. – Diplomatic scandal involving French demands for bribes.
  2. 4. – Chief Justice who strengthened the Supreme Court.
  3. 6. – A law, especially one passed for governing western lands.
  4. 9. – Convention leader and first president who set early precedents.
  5. 12. – Protest against a tax that tested Washington’s authority.
  6. 15. Territory – Region created by Congress that included future Midwestern states.
  7. 17. – Group that opposed the Constitution without a Bill of Rights.
  8. 18. – Federalist leader who supported a national bank.
  9. 19. – Short-lived “lost” state that tried to break away in the 1780s.
Down
  1. 1. – System preventing any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
  2. 2. – Laws passed under Adams that limited speech against the government.
  3. 4. – “Father of the Constitution” who kept detailed convention notes.
  4. 5. – Land deal that doubled the size of the United States.
  5. 7. – First ten amendments protecting individual freedoms.
  6. 8. – Compromise on how enslaved people would be counted for representation.
  7. 10. – Agreement creating a two-house legislature.
  8. 11. – America’s first national government structure after independence.
  9. 13. – Democratic-Republican leader who favored strict interpretation.
  10. 14. – Power shared between national and state governments.
  11. 16. – Farmers’ uprising that showed weaknesses of the Articles.