Chapter 7 Lessons 1-2 Review

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Across
  1. 2. proposed the Virginia Plan
  2. 6. "Small-state plan", proposing equal representation in the legislature by state, regardless of population.
  3. 9. a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases
  4. 10. having the proper size in relation to other objects or items
  5. 13. "Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in the legislature.
  6. 14. _______ of Confederation; first government of U.S.
  7. 18. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
  8. 19. Created in 1787
Down
  1. 1. a settlement of a dispute by each party giving up some demands
  2. 3. Father of the Constitution, primary author of Constitution
  3. 4. Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house
  4. 5. Chosen president of the Constitutional Convention
  5. 6. Enacted in 1787, it is considered one of the most significant achievements of the Articles of Confederation. It established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an equal footing with the original 13 states
  6. 7. A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
  7. 8. A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
  8. 11. to fall in value
  9. 12. having two separate lawmaking chambers
  10. 15. law
  11. 16. proposed the New Jersey Plan
  12. 17. a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.