Honors Assignment Extension #1 - Lessons 1 & 2 Crossword

2. A form of government in which officials are representatives elected by the people.
5. ______ Bill of Rights. A written list of freedoms that the ______ government promised to protect signed by King William and Queen Mary in 1688.
6. Opponents of the proposed Constitution.
9. The Declaration of Independence was mainly written by this man.
11. Legislature elected by Virginia planters.
12. 9 of the 13 states had to ______ the Constitution for it to go into effect.
14. This man applied reason to government and politics, and who wrote that all individuals have fundamental natural rights, "life, liberty, and property."
15. _______ Compact. A framework for a self-government adopted by the Puritans when they first settled at Plymouth in 1620.
19. The _________ Papers explained why one believed the Constitution was vital to the survival of the new nation.
20. The Articles of ________.

1. Limited the power of the English monarch signed by King John in 1215.
3. A list of freedoms guaranteed by the state government included in most state constitutions.
4. The European intellectual movement during the 1700s.
7. ________ Territory. This area of land lays north of the Ohio River and stretched west from Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River.
8. This man served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
10. The religious revival that affected the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s.
13. ______ and balances: Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated.
16. Shay's _______. This highlighted the weaknesses of the national government set up by the Articles of Confederation.
17. John _____. This man was the leader of the Patriots in Massachusetts and was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.
18. ______ Madison. This man designed the Virginia Plan.