Colonial Era through the US Constitution
Across
- 3. Allows Congress to pass legislation
- 5. This was a British tax on paper goods
- 6. Law signed under the Articles of Confederation that prohibited slavery in the Ohio River Valley region
- 9. The official term for a legislative branch that has two chambers
- 13. This clause found in Article VI. Section 2 of the US Constitution makes clear that the US government is higher than state governments
- 14. This amendment allows states legislate on topics that the federal government has not already regulated
- 16. Found in the 12th Amendment, this is not popular vote is how the president is elected in the United States
- 17. Name of pamphlet published the same year as the Declaration of Independence to convince colonists reasons to separate from Britain
- 18. This group argued for a strong central government and did not believe the Bill of Rights was necessary to include in the US Constitution
- 19. Gives legislative power to Congress
- 20. This compromise between the north and south enhancing the population of the southern states by counting enslaved people as part of it
- 21. Allowed for the importation of enslaved people until the year, 1808
Down
- 1. Advocated for more states rights
- 2. Rebellion that occurred in the state of Virginia over farmers wanting more land and protesting taxes
- 4. Taken every decade and used to determine the number of representatives each state can send to Congress
- 7. corrects this weakness of the Articles of Confederation and allows Congress to tax the states
- 8. A trade regulation stipulating that colonies can only trade within the empire
- 10. the first ten amendments that were added as part of the Constitution
- 11. This compromise was made between the states of Virginia and New Jersey creating a bicameral legislature
- 12. American delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
- 15. Some argue this war was started by Washington and his Ohio Company