Lesson 4.1 The Articles of Confederation

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Across
  1. 2. The 1787 meeting where leaders decided to write a new plan for a stronger government.
  2. 5. The money used by a country.
  3. 7. OF CONFEDERATION The first set of rules for the entire nation, which ultimately proved to be too weak.
  4. 11. The national government had no money to pay this after the war.
  5. 13. The orderly process of adding new states and settling Western lands.
  6. 15. ORDINANCE This success of the first government created a peaceful plan for new territories to become states and led to orderly expansion.
  7. 16. The group of elected people who make the laws, given more power by early state constitutions.
  8. 19. OF RIGHTS The first ten amendments to the Constitution, added to protect individual freedoms.
  9. 20. What the first government helped the states win from Britain.
Down
  1. 1. The national government lacked a system of these to settle arguments between states.
  2. 3. A written plan or set of rules for a government.
  3. 4. The city where leaders met for the Constitutional Convention.
  4. 6. State constitutions gave very little power to this state leader.
  5. 8. The national government had no power to collect this, so it had no money to pay debts or run the country.
  6. 9. A type of government where a group of states agrees to be friends, but each state keeps most of its own power
  7. 10. REBELLION This event, led by farmers, showed leaders that the country was falling apart and proved the national government was too weak.
  8. 12. To give up or transfer land, often to the national government.
  9. 14. To transfer something from public to private ownership.
  10. 17. The Articles of Confederation government could not protect the states because it had no national one of these.
  11. 18. CONSTITUTION The completely new plan for a stronger government written at the Constitutional Convention.