Constitution Vocab Review

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Across
  1. 2. trade between two or more states
  2. 4. "Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, attended the Constitutional Convention
  3. 8. Series of essays by Alexander Hamilton that defended the Constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the federal government.
  4. 12. an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures
  5. 14. increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money
  6. 15. a document signed by King John in 1215, English Bill of Rights
  7. 16. U.S. system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states
  8. 19. a system established by the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
  9. 21. people who supported ratification of the Constitution
  10. 24. the first 10 amendments to the Constitution; ratified in 1791. Purpose was to protect the rights of the people.
  11. 25. a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government
  12. 26. a document that gave people in Virginia freedom of worship and prohibited tax money from being used to fund churches
  13. 28. the document that created the first central government for the United States in 1777; it was replaced by the Constitution in 1789
  14. 29. an agreement proposed at the Constitutional Convention by Roger Sherman that said a state's population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature
  15. 30. a steep drop in economic activity combined with rising unemployment
  16. 31. an official approval
Down
  1. 1. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
  2. 3. Official changes, corrections, or additions to the Constitution
  3. 4. the division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts; interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states
  4. 5. a proposal by William Patterson to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population; rejected at the Constitutional Convention
  5. 6. legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country
  6. 7. the division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws
  7. 9. voting rights
  8. 10. the plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention by Edmund Randolph in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have two houses with representation determined by state population
  9. 11. individuals who opposed ratification of the Constitution
  10. 13. lands including present-day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; organized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  11. 17. an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count when determining its population for representation in the lower house of Congress
  12. 18. Antifederalist whose objections to the Constitution led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights
  13. 20. a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wished to improve the Articles of Confederation
  14. 22. the division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments; enforces the nation's laws
  15. 23. Head of Shay's Rebellion; he and several other angry farmers violently protested against taxes and their land being taken; eventually crushed; Shay's Rebellion aided in the creation of constitution.
  16. 27. Taxes on imports or exports