Ch. 7-9 Crossword - Carrington Grant

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Across
  1. 2. A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
  2. 3. Plan by James Madison that called for a two-house legislature, a chief executive chosen by the legislature and a court system
  3. 5. The Secretaries of State, Treasury, War and Attorney General who met regularly with George Washington (the first President)
  4. 9. Counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation
  5. 15. The first state to approve the Constitution
  6. 16. First President of the United States
  7. 18. Superintendent of Finance in May 1781
  8. 19. Another word for 'approve' as in the approval of the Constitution
  9. 20. Plan of government
Down
  1. 1. Sharing power between the federal and state governments, which is one of the distinctive features of the US government
  2. 4. Lawmaking branch of the government
  3. 6. The President
  4. 7. The first Secretary of the Treasury
  5. 8. The first 10 Amendments that were added to the Constitution
  6. 10. The first Secretary of State
  7. 11. A movement of the 1700s in Britain that promoted knowledge, reason and science as the means to improve society
  8. 12. Law that was passed by the Confederation Congress that established a procedure for surveying and selling the western lands north of the Ohio River
  9. 13. The freeing of individual enslaved persons that was passed into law by the state of Virginia
  10. 14. The number of stars, stripes, arrows, olives and leaves in the Great Seal of the United States
  11. 17. The first Secretary of War