History Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. a tax on imports and exports.
- 6. an addition or alteration made to a constitution,statute, or legislative bill or resolution.
- 7. small state plan that proposed equal representation among all states.
- 12. an economic and political system where trade and industry are controlled by private owners of profit.
- 14. 2nd US president.
- 17. someone who argued for a stronger national government.
- 18. anti federalist leader who believed in the need to restrict governmental power to prevent abuse; served as a delegate from Virginia at the Constitutional Convention.
- 20. a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare.
- 21. to refuse to buy,use, or participate. Kind of like a protest.
Down
- 1. a body of fundamental principles.
- 2. the distribution of power between the federal government and the states within the Union.
- 4. this is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the United States.
- 5. this declared that the US was forever free and independent from the European powers.
- 7. a person who does not care about whether we became a new country or under British control.
- 8. the branch of government that interprets the law.
- 9. and economic and political system where trade and industry are controlled by private owners of profit.
- 10. a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that was written to try and persuade the colonists to join the patriot cause.
- 11. the act where British legislation tried to end smuggling trade in sugar and molasses.
- 13. fair treatment through the normal Judicial system,fair treatment in court.
- 15. a person who is against British rule and wants to become it's own country.
- 16. people who are loyal to the king.
- 19. conflict fought between the US and Great Britain over British over British violations of US maritime rights.