Unit 2 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
  2. 3. The Judicial branch interprets the laws.
  3. 7. The executive branch of our Government is in charge of making sure that the laws of the United States are obeyed.
  4. 9. The federal principle or system of government.
  5. 15. The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia
  6. 19. The first constitution of the United states that was soon replaced for being too weak.
  7. 20. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights.
  8. 21. An uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shay led four thousand rebels in an uprising against economic and civil rights injustices.
  9. 23. Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  10. 25. A person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority.
  11. 26. A system in which it keeps any branch of the government from having too much power.
Down
  1. 1. The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
  2. 4. A form of government in which power is vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives.
  3. 5. Provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory
  4. 6. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west.
  5. 8. Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.
  6. 10. Was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
  7. 11. The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives
  8. 12. Refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.
  9. 13. Was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government
  10. 14. Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
  11. 16. The Electoral College is a process between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
  12. 17. It is one of the branches of the government that is in charge of making laws.
  13. 18. Was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.
  14. 22. James Madison Jr. was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States
  15. 24. John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, was one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism”