Unit 3 - Forming a new nation

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Across
  1. 3. College The group established by the Constitution to elect the 8 president and vice president
  2. 4. A strong disagreement
  3. 7. A basic set of ideas used to develop a larger plan
  4. 8. A written plan that provides the basic framework of a 4 government
  5. 9. To treat a person or group unfairly
  6. 12. The “Age of Reason” in 17th- and 18th-century Europe.
  7. 15. Federalist Papers
  8. 16. Compromise The plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress
  9. 18. and balances The system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other two branches
  10. 19. A difference between two statements or situations that means they cannot both be true
Down
  1. 1. A group of people or things with obvious differences among them
  2. 2. of Confederation The first written plan of government for the United States
  3. 5. To agree or pledge to support someone or something
  4. 6. A country governed by elected representatives
  5. 10. Territory A region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes
  6. 11. Convention A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution
  7. 13. Supporting ideas of freedom, change, and progress
  8. 14. Ordinance A law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed
  9. 17. To formally approve a plan or an agreement