Unit 7: Early Republic Crossword (No spaces between words)

3. To force American sailors into the British or French Navy.
4. A proposed law.
6. The group of people who supported the new Constitution of the US.
7. The site of agreement between the US and France that ended their alliance and required France to pay the US for ship damage.
11. To import and export goods with other nations.
13. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution that was ratified in 1791 and guaranteed rights like freedom of speech, assembly, and worship.
15. The principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people through elected reps.
17. To approve something.
18. 4 laws passed by congress in 1798 to limit the freedom of the press & foreign influence in the US.
20. Licenses given to US shipowners by France to commit piracy and fit a vessel to capture British merchant ships.
22. To have authority and power.
23. To charge a public official with misconduct.

1. The political part created by Jefferson and Madison in the 1790s that supported republicanism, agrarianism, equality, and expansionism.
2. A body of people representing the states that cast votes for the election of the president and VP.
5. A political and diplomatic episode between 1797-98 involving a confrontation between the US and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War.
8. People who invest in stocks, property, and other ventures to make profit.
9. To have authority of administering justice in a region.
10. To reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
12. A tax protest in the US between 1791-94 over a tax placed on whiskey.
14. A group of people with similar beliefs who follow their own interests instead of other's interests.
16. A type of government that combines a general govt with a regional govt into a single govt dividing the powers between the two.
19. The of legislative authority to reject a veto of a bill by voting again to get a 2/3 majority.
21. A tax on foreign trade items.