Articles of Confederation & Constitutional Convention

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Across
  1. 5. A change or an addition to the constitution
  2. 8. 1787; a meeting to discuss making changed to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in writing the US Constitution
  3. 9. 1787; a law to expand the United States; organized western lands into equal states
  4. 10. FOR the constitution; wanted a strong government
  5. 11. 1st constitution of the United States of America; created a weak central government
Down
  1. 1. Solved issues on representation between large and small states; created 2 houses of Congress - Senate (equal, 2 per state) & House of Representative (based on state population)
  2. 2. "Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader
  3. 3. the first 10 amendments of the Constitution
  4. 4. AGAINST the constitution; wanted a Bill of Rights
  5. 6. Approval of the states by a vote
  6. 7. 3 out of 5 slaves would be counted toward state population and taxes