American Revolution Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. the struggle of the colonies in North America to gain their independence from Great Britain
  2. 4. a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government
  3. 5. the group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. Voters in each state choose their electors.
  4. 7. the American army during the American Revolution
  5. 9. the plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.
  6. 10. the document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule
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  1. 1. Northwest Ordinancea law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed
  2. 2. a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
  3. 6. the “Age of Reason” in 17th- and 18th-century Europe. Enlightenment thinkers emphasized using rational thought to discover truths about nature and society.
  4. 8. rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law