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- 2. trade between two or more states
- 4. "Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, attended the Constitutional Convention
- 8. Series of essays by Alexander Hamilton that defended the Constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the federal government.
- 12. an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures
- 14. increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money
- 15. a document signed by King John in 1215, English Bill of Rights
- 16. U.S. system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states
- 19. a system established by the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
- 21. people who supported ratification of the Constitution
- 24. the first 10 amendments to the Constitution; ratified in 1791. Purpose was to protect the rights of the people.
- 25. a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government
- 26. a document that gave people in Virginia freedom of worship and prohibited tax money from being used to fund churches
- 28. the document that created the first central government for the United States in 1777; it was replaced by the Constitution in 1789
- 29. an agreement proposed at the Constitutional Convention by Roger Sherman that said a state's population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature
- 30. a steep drop in economic activity combined with rising unemployment
- 31. an official approval
Down
- 1. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
- 3. Official changes, corrections, or additions to the Constitution
- 4. the division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts; interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states
- 5. a proposal by William Patterson to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population; rejected at the Constitutional Convention
- 6. legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country
- 7. the division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws
- 9. voting rights
- 10. the plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention by Edmund Randolph in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have two houses with representation determined by state population
- 11. individuals who opposed ratification of the Constitution
- 13. lands including present-day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; organized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- 17. an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count when determining its population for representation in the lower house of Congress
- 18. Antifederalist whose objections to the Constitution led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights
- 20. a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wished to improve the Articles of Confederation
- 22. the division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments; enforces the nation's laws
- 23. Head of Shay's Rebellion; he and several other angry farmers violently protested against taxes and their land being taken; eventually crushed; Shay's Rebellion aided in the creation of constitution.
- 27. Taxes on imports or exports