Unit 1 Review

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Across
  1. 2. Both the Federalists and AntiFederalists believed government should by structured in this way.
  2. 4. This document written in 1776 declared our _____ from England (and started the war)
  3. 6. American document that recognized natural rights.
  4. 7. Last name of the man who wrote the Constitution
  5. 9. The period of time when people developed new ideas about human existence.
  6. 11. This Enlightenment thinker believed citizens should give up some freedom in exchange for the government's protection
  7. 13. The name of the compromise that said how slaves would be a part of population count
  8. 17. Took both the New Jersey plan and the Virginia Plan to establish a government with both population representation and equal representation
  9. 19. Last name of the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence
  10. 21. How each branch of the government can monitor the other branches
  11. 23. This was added at the end of the constitution to get a 3/4 vote for ratification and would be the first 10 amendments
  12. 24. This Enlightenment thinker believed in republicanism, or the idea that a country's leader should be chosen by the citizens in a general election
Down
  1. 1. Term for when smaller groups form alliances with one another
  2. 3. Defines as Supreme Law of the Land
  3. 5. This Enlightenment thinker believed that humans are born with natural rights
  4. 8. The smaller paragraphs of the Constitution
  5. 10. Document written by the colonists that established a government and answered the question of "Who is in charge?"
  6. 12. This state was the only one not to have any representation at the Constitutional Convention
  7. 14. The idea to share the power between the national government and the state government
  8. 15. The Articles of the Confederation was deemed a _____ (opposite of success)
  9. 16. If the government fails to protect citizens, citizens have the right to revolt.
  10. 18. The opening of the Constitution that begins with "We the people..."
  11. 20. Document that limited the power of the king and protected certain rights for the nobles.
  12. 22. The only topic discussed at the Constitutional Convention that could not be solved and was pushed off for 20 years.