American Government

2. plan of union: Benjamin Franklin’s plan to unite the colonies.
3. fundamental rights: First basic set of laws for the colonies.
4. Stopped
6. Act: First direct tax on the American colonies.
8. single chamber
11. Government: A system where people vote in representatives.
16. money collected from taxes.
18. commerce: trade among the states.
20. The many men who wrote the constitution.
22. bill of rights: Laws passed by parliament.
24. Ordinance: an Act that charted a government for the northwest territory.
25. 80 essays defending the new constitution.

1. Henry: One of the many founding fathers and first governor of virginia.
5. Not sanctioned by law.
7. Agreement prohibiting trade.
9. political disorder and chaos.
10. Acts: Laws passed to punish Massachusetts colonists.
12. of powers: Separating the powers of the government in different branches.
13. Organizations resisting British tyranny.
14. Carta: First idea of limited government.
15. of right: A bill limiting the power of the king.
17. compact: First colonial plan for future self government.
19. approved
21. Laws
23. Government: Government with the power to act on a national level and not able to limit the rights of the people.