Ch 3 crosssword puzzle

2. a legislature that is divided into two parts or houses.
5. people from Pennsylvania who made the first anti-slavery society.
8. government by consent of the governed and equal justice under law.
9. a french writer who declared that the powers of government should be separated and balanced.
12. a system that prevents any one branch from gaining too much power.
16. it created a single Northwest Territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
17. the first Constitution of the United States.
20. the sharing of power between the federal and state governments.
21. the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
24. a movement of the 1700’s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as the means to improve society.
25. a plan for a strong national government made by Edmund Randolph.
26. a period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased.
27. a riot of angry farmers led by Daniel Shays.
28. a former Continental Army captain.

1. Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
3. the lawmaking branch of the government.
4. most state constitutions included a ___________, guaranteeing certain freedoms and legal protections to the state’s citizens.
6. a decision to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation.
7. a powerful speaker and writer, wrote the final draft of the Constitution.
10. an English philosopher who believed that all people have natural rights.
11. the freeing of individual enslaved persons.
13. people who criticized the Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights to protect individual freedoms.
14. a Virginia planter who called for a convention.
15. the proposition of a two house legislature. In the lower house the number of seats for each state would be decided by the state’s population. The upper house would be decided by the lower house.
18. one of the documents that helped establish the idea that people have rights and that the power of the government should be limited.
19. a single territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
22. a merchant who was in charge of the department of finance.
23. supporters of the Constitution.