Across
- 4. Assembly The legislature of the state of Georgia, consists of a senate and a house of representatives.
- 5. Washington A chairman at the Constitutional Convention.
- 6. A sharp economic downturn.
- 9. of Rights The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
- 11. Convention A closed door meeting in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 that resulted in the creation of an entirely new government.
- 13. Baldwin One of Georgia's representatives that helped resolved the large state-small state representation crisis.
- 14. Few One of Georgia's representatives.
Down
- 1. A road that travelers had to pay a fee or toll to use.
- 2. George Mathews Approached by four land companies to bribe them to pass a bill allowing the land companies to buy the western lands.
- 3. System Under this system, each white male counted as a "head" of a family and had the "right" to receive up to 1,000 acres.
- 7. Land Fraud The sale western land to four land companies after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed.
- 8. Purchase A transaction in which the United States at the urging of President Jefferson, bought from France for $15 million a huge amount of land stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
- 9. Franklin A writer, printer, inventor, scientist, diplomat, historian, and statesman.
- 10. Jefferson Became the country's third president in 1800, succeeding John Adams.
- 12. Whitney Created a machine called the cotton gin to have an easier way t separate cotton fiber from its seed.