An Age Of Expansion Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. System Under this system, each white male counted as a "head" of a family and had the "right" to receive up to 1,000 acres
  2. 5. One of Georgia's representatives at the Constitutional Convention
  3. 6. Land Fraud The sale of western land to four land companies after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
  4. 7. Constitution The document that set up our current framework for government; written in 1787 and ratified in 1788
  5. 9. Purchase A transaction in which the United States, at the urging of President Jefferson, bought from France $15 million a huge amount of land stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
  6. 11. Roads were called this because they had "pikes" or gates
  7. 12. Another one of Georgia's representatives at the Constitutional Convention
Down
  1. 1. Invented the cotton gin which revolutionized cotton separation for workers
  2. 3. A sharp economic downturn
  3. 4. Assembly The legislature of the state of Georgia; consists of a senate and a house of representatives
  4. 8. Georgia's governor who was bribed into passing a bill allowing the land companies to buy the western lands
  5. 10. of Rights The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution