Across
- 2. Legalized segregation in the South.
- 5. plan of govt. for the USA before the constitution, was not working because federal govt. too weak
- 7. Carries out the laws, Enforces laws, President, elected for 4 yrs
- 9. established in practice or custom,to make part of life
- 10. ideas from the 18th century that influenced our Declaration and Constitution
- 11. 1896 Supreme Court case: separate but equal is constitutional, Segregation is ok
- 12. 100 member, 2 from each state, who serve 6-yr term
- 14. 435 members, who serve 2-yr term, lower house of congress, based on population
- 15. Makes laws,Bicameral (House, Senate)
- 16. Companies that control all production of a good or service
Down
- 1. use of government power for personal gain
- 3. process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot
- 4. central banking system of the United States, which regulates banks
- 6. addition of new territory to an existing country
- 8. Branch of government that decides if laws are carried out fairly, and interprets the laws
- 13. People who wanted to perserve the country for white, American-born Protestants
