Ch 3 crosssword puzzle

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  1. 3. the sharing of power between the federal and state governments.
  2. 5. of Rights, most state constitutions included a ___________, guaranteeing certain freedoms and legal protections to the state’s citizens.
  3. 6. Madison, a Virginia planter who called for a convention.
  4. 13. the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
  5. 14. Ordinance, it created a single Northwest Territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
  6. 16. fifths compromise, a decision to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation.
  7. 17. and balances, a system that prevents any one branch from gaining too much power.
  8. 19. federalists, people who criticized the Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights to protect individual freedoms.
  9. 20. of Government, Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
  10. 22. supporters of the Constitution.
  11. 23. Sovereignty, government by consent of the governed and equal justice under law.
  12. 24. a movement of the 1700’s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as the means to improve society.
  13. 25. people from Pennsylvania who made the first anti-slavery society.
  14. 26. Plan, a plan for a strong national government made by Edmund Randolph.
  15. 27. a french writer who declared that the powers of government should be separated and balanced.
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  1. 1. Morris, a merchant who was in charge of the department of finance.
  2. 2. a period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased.
  3. 4. Bill of Rights, one of the documents that helped establish the idea that people have rights and that the power of the government should be limited.
  4. 5. a legislature that is divided into two parts or houses.
  5. 7. Territory, a single territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
  6. 8. Locke, an English philosopher who believed that all people have natural rights.
  7. 9. Great Compromise, the proposition of a two house legislature. In the lower house the number of seats for each state would be decided by the state’s population. The upper house would be decided by the lower house.
  8. 10. of Confederation, the first Constitution of the United States.
  9. 11. Rebellion, a riot of angry farmers led by Daniel Shays.
  10. 12. Morris, a powerful speaker and writer, wrote the final draft of the Constitution.
  11. 15. Shays, a former Continental Army captain.
  12. 18. the freeing of individual enslaved persons.
  13. 21. Branch, the lawmaking branch of the government.