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