CH28 - The Making of the American Constitution

Edit Answers
1234567891011121314151617181920
Across
  1. 2. America’s first national government plan that proved too weak.
  2. 3. Branch that interprets the laws.
  3. 6. Meeting in 1787 where delegates wrote a new framework of government.
  4. 9. Agreement creating a two-house Congress with different types of representation.
  5. 10. Plan that proposed representation based on population.
  6. 12. Having two legislative houses.
  7. 17. The lower house of Congress.
  8. 19. Agreement that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation.
  9. 20. To formally approve a constitution or law.
Down
  1. 1. Branch that carries out the laws.
  2. 4. that feared a strong national government would take away state power.
  3. 5. Trade between states or nations, which became a power of Congress.
  4. 7. Group that supported a stronger national government.
  5. 8. Branch that makes the laws.
  6. 11. Plan that proposed equal representation for each state.
  7. 13. Uprising that showed the national government was too weak under the Articles.
  8. 14. The way states are given a voice in Congress.
  9. 15. The upper house of Congress.
  10. 16. Based on population size.
  11. 18. System dividing government into three branches.