Unit #4 Extra Credit

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Across
  1. 2. a statement in the U.S. Constitution granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers.
  2. 3. an agreement by the United States and Great Britain that helped avert war between the two nations.
  3. 6. a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War.
  4. 8. outlined a strong national government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
  5. 9. having two branches or chambers.
  6. 13. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  7. 14. the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
  8. 15. counting of population every ten years
  9. 17. an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution.
  10. 18. Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
  11. 19. provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
  12. 20. a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.
Down
  1. 1. having a single legislative chamber.
  2. 4. a person who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
  3. 5. the agreement on any type of discussion
  4. 7. a person who supports the constitution
  5. 10. national political convention held September 11–14, 1786 at Mann's Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland, in which twelve delegates from five U.S. states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) gathered to discuss and develop a consensus on reversing the protectionist trade barriers that each state had erected.
  6. 11. an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
  7. 12. tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans
  8. 16. an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades.