Across
- 3. Federalists were most numerous in commercial centers of the Northeast and in such southern seaports as _________
- 6. contributed most to creating the American Constitution
- 10. this act placed obstacles in the way of foreigners who wished to become American citizens
- 11. this document helped resolve the question of sovereignty and limiting power
- 13. most of the founding fathers were very young except ____________ who was 81
- 14. the first Congress created 3 departments- state, ______, and war- and established the offices of the attorney general and the postmaster general
- 15. called for a new national legislature with 2 houses
- 17. farmers in western PA who refused to pay a tax on whiskey led to this
- 18. the vice president when George Washington was president
- 20. Adams appointed a bipartisan commission consisting of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and ___________ to negotiate with France
- 21. those who opposed the Constitution
- 22. the Constitution did not resolve 2 problems: the place of the Indian nation within the federal structure and the issue of _______ between the Indians and whites
- 25. produces commercial relationship with Britain, settled conflicts, and helped prevent war
Down
- 1. submitted an alternative to the Virginia Plan (the New Jersey Plan)
- 2. the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions used ___________'s ideas to argue that the federal government was formed by a contract and possessed only certain delegated powers
- 4. Washington was more in sympathy with the Federalists than the Republicans, so _________ remained the dominant figure in government
- 5. supporters of the Constitution
- 7. Hamilton's Program was thought by farmers to serve the interests not of the people but of the __________
- 8. in the ______ War, Americans captured 85 French ships and became allies with Britain
- 9. Republicans were most numerous in the ______ and west
- 12. John Adams won the Election of 1796 by ______ electoral votes
- 16. the French foreign minister
- 19. the 2 chambers in Congress- the _________ and the House of Representatives
- 23. a Massachusetts Federalist and secretary of war
- 24. Federalists had to decide between Thomas Jefferson and __________ in the Election of 1800