Unit 6: Creating a Nation Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Branch interpreting laws
  2. 7. Group wanting a Bill of Rights
  3. 11. Land law organizing western territories and creating statehood
  4. 14. Branch that makes laws
  5. 15. 1st constitution is America
  6. 16. Group supporting the Constitution and strong central government
  7. 19. House in congress with equal representation Congress
  8. 21. Elects the President
  9. 22. A system where branches check each other’s power
  10. 23. “Father of the Constitution”
  11. 24. The event that proved the Articles were too weak
Down
  1. 2. Bill of Rights protects
  2. 3. The Principle dividing government into branches
  3. 4. Power shared between states and national government
  4. 5. House in congress with representation based on population
  5. 6. Who is the head of the Executive Branch?
  6. 8. First ten amendments
  7. 9. Meeting to revise the Articles
  8. 10. the North agreed to the 3/5 compromise because they planned on voting to end the _____ _______ _____ in 20 years
  9. 12. Combine NJ and VA Plan creating two-house Congress
  10. 13. Counting enslaved people for votes in the House of Representatives
  11. 17. The city where the Convention was held
  12. 18. The Highest Court in the Judicial Branch
  13. 20. Branch enforcing laws