Across
- 2. movement in England during the 1700s when people started think the world could be made better by thinking with reason.
- 3. life, equality, pursuit of happiness, property, and liberty
- 4. first attempt at a government for the US. It was a very loose, weak government that failed
- 6. document written when the colonists were first coming to the US showing what kind of government they would have
- 8. document written at the end of the revolutionary war declaring the US broken off from Britain
- 10. treating a person as property. During 1700s, it was very important to the Southern states'economy.
- 12. document signed in 1215 by King John of England that lessened his power RULE OF LAW
Down
- 1. Legislature (passes laws), Executive (enforces laws), and Judicial (interprets laws)
- 5. strong central government. It is the highest form of government in the US
- 7. 3 out of every 5 slaves counted in census
- 9. first part of the Constitution
- 11. Compromise compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. Created by Roger Sherman