Silverman's Early American Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. These servants worked without wages for a specified number of years in exchange for transportation to the colonies.
  2. 4. Along with checks, it is the power of each branch to counter the powers of the other branches
  3. 5. People who were in favor of the ratification of the Constitution and believed in a strong national government
  4. 6. Along with the Pilgrims, this dour group left England for the “New World” create a theocratic government – a government with laws based on religion.
  5. 9. The first direct tax on the colonists which required them to pay taxes on almost all paper goods
  6. 10. First conference where the Articles of Confederation were created
  7. 13. People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution without the inclusion of a Bill of Rights; believed in a weak central government with more powers given to the individual states
  8. 14. The division “of powers” between the three branches of government
  9. 15. The idea that government’s power is not absolute and that people hold certain “inalienable” rights.
Down
  1. 1. An agreement where people give up certain freedoms to the government in exchange for security.
  2. 3. Principles and laws that are the foundation of a nation’s government
  3. 7. The peculiar institution which is never mentioned in the Constitution but is the county’s original sin
  4. 8. Trade in slaves, manufactured goods, and raw material between the Americas, Europe and Africa
  5. 11. The first ten amendments to the constitution.
  6. 12. Absolute rule by a government that ignores the rights of the people