Chapter 5: Creating a Constitution

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Across
  1. 2. established a new method for surveying the western lands
  2. 6. a governor of Virginia who introduced the Virginia plan
  3. 9. a member of the Virginia Assembly and head of its commerce committee
  4. 12. a delegate from New Jersey who proposed the New Jersey Plan
  5. 13. proposed scrapping the Articles of Confederation and creating a new national government with the power to make laws and set taxes
  6. 16. a delegate from Pennsylvania
  7. 17. proposed the Great Compromise
  8. 19. a divided government power between the federal or national, government and the state governments
  9. 20. opposers of the constitution
Down
  1. 1. rule by the people
  2. 3. "what is to afford our security against the violence of lawless men? Our government must be braced, changed, or altered to secure our lives and property."
  3. 4. a New York delegate that recommended another convention at Philadelphia in 1787
  4. 5. a violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787 that was brought about by a debt crisis at the end of the war
  5. 7. supporters of the Constitution
  6. 8. for every five enslaved people in a state, they would count as 3 free persons determining both representation and taxes
  7. 10. established a very weak central government
  8. 11. economic slowdown
  9. 14. changes to the constitution
  10. 15. provided the basis for governing much of the western territories
  11. 18. taxes on imported goods