US History Ch5 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. people who supported ratification of the Constitution
  2. 5. official change, correction,or addition to a law or constitution
  3. 6. the plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have two houses with representation determined by state population
  4. 10. an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state’s population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature
  5. 11. the division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws
  6. 14. led hundreds of men to shut down the Supreme Court in an event that became known as Shays’s Rebellion
  7. 15. the division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts; interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states
  8. 17. an anti-federalist who opposed the constitution and believed the Constitution needed a section guaranteeing individual rights
  9. 19. a meeting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution
  10. 22. to plead in favor of
  11. 24. an agreement worked out at the constitutional convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count when determining a state’s population for representation in the lower house of Congress
  12. 25. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
  13. 26. trade between two or more states
  14. 29. a series of essays that defended and explained the constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the proposed national government
  15. 30. an uprising of Massachusetts’ farmers, led by Daniels Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures
  16. 32. an official approval
  17. 33. a charter of liberties agreed to by King John of England, it made the king obey the same laws as citizens
  18. 34. a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government
Down
  1. 1. a tax on imports or exports
  2. 3. the division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments; enforces the nation’s laws
  3. 4. The fourth president, delegate of the Constitutional Convention, and author of the Bill of Rights.
  4. 7. the document that created the first central government of the United States; was replaced by the Constitution in 1789
  5. 8. a proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population; rejected at the Constitutional Convention
  6. 9. a document that gave people in Virginia freed of worship and prohibited tax money from being used to fund churches
  7. 12. legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country
  8. 13. legislation passed by Congress to establish a political structure for the Northwest Territory and create a system for the admission of new states
  9. 16. a steep drop in economic activity combined with rising unemployment
  10. 18. U.S. system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states
  11. 20. a system established by the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
  12. 21. people who opposed ratification of the Constitution
  13. 23. lands including present-day Illinois, INdiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; organized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  14. 27. voting rights
  15. 28. the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791
  16. 31. increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money