Unit 3 Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. The first, weak governing document of the US, which created a central government without the power to tax
- 4. An agreement counting three-fifths of the slave population for representation and taxation purposes
- 6. An achievement of the Articles of Confederation that established a process for admitting new states
- 8. A deal at the Constitutional Convention creating a bicameral legislature
- 12. An uprising of Massachusetts farmers protesting taxes and debt; it exposed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
- 13. A direct tax imposed by Parliament on all paper goods in the colonies
Down
- 1. Local organized groups that exchanged information and coordinated resistance against British
- 3. A series of essays written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay that argued for the ratification of the Constitution
- 5. A conflict between Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley
- 7. The document adopted by the Second Continental Congress that formally announced the separation from Britain
- 9. A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine arguing that it was logical for the colonies to break away from Great Britain
- 10. A British law prohibiting colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to appease Native Americans
- 11. Radical groups formed to resist British policies, often using intimidation