Review: Formation of U.S. Government, Part I

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Across
  1. 3. Protest by Massachusetts’s farmers against the government on whom they blamed for inflation and the poor economy after the Revolution.
  2. 4. The United States had a problem with Britain after the Revolutionary War because Britain restricted _________ with the United States.
  3. 5. A series of articles and essays promoting the ratification of the U.S. Constitution; written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
  4. 7. Laws that loosely tied the United States into a “league of “friendship”
  5. 8. Electors who cast votes to elect the president and vice president.
  6. 11. This country was the most important trade partner with the United States in the late 1700’s.
  7. 12. This English document limited the power of the monarch and said Kings/Queens should follow the same laws as the people.
Down
  1. 1. High __________ led farmers in Massachusetts to rebel.
  2. 2. 55 delegates from 12 states came to Philadelphia in 1787 to come up with a new plan for government, this is now known as the _________________________.
  3. 6. The Articles of Confederation gave the Congress of the United States practically _______ power.
  4. 9. This branch of government is the law-making branch.
  5. 10. A weak central __________________ was to blame for economic and other problems the United States faced after the Revolution.