US History 1st Semester Exam Review

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Across
  1. 5. A change to the Constitution
  2. 7. President can veto laws passed by Congress; Congress can coverride a presedential veto with a two-thirds vote; Supreme Court can declare a law passed by Congress unconstitutional
  3. 11. Amendment that contains 5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition
  4. 12. Against ratification of the Constitution because it did not include a Bill of Rights to protect individual liberties; They also belived the Constitution should give more power to the states
  5. 14. A form of government in which people elect representatives to carry out the will of the people
  6. 16. American victory that forced the British to surrender and led to the signing of the Treaty of Paris
  7. 17. Colony founded as a refuge from religious persecution
  8. 18. 2nd president; defended Redcoats at the Boston Massacre Trial; Negotiated the Treaty of Paris
  9. 19. Leader of the Democratic-Republican Poltical Party; 3rd President of the United States
  10. 22. Leader of the Federalist Polical Party and 1st Secretary of the Treasury.
  11. 24. A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
  12. 25. Because of a need for their own law, the rights they claim as Englishmen, and distance from Great Britain, they established their own.
Down
  1. 1. bicameral legislature consisting of a House and Senate
  2. 2. Formal approval
  3. 3. Farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against tax on whiskey. The incident showed that the federal government had the power to pass and enfore tax laws.
  4. 4. Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutriton
  5. 6. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; these rights are defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence
  6. 8. Amendment that syas No cruel and unusual punishment
  7. 9. The first migrantion to a permanent English colony in North America, found 1607.
  8. 10. a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how territoris could apply for statehood once they had a population of sixty thousand free settlers
  9. 13. A constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to a speedy and public trial.
  10. 15. A social contract in which the Pilgrims at Plymouth agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good
  11. 20. focused on trading fur in the Great Lakes region
  12. 21. This system created tension between Great Britain and the colonies by preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign counties
  13. 23. Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French ally with the United States.