Across
- 2. These servants worked without wages for a specified number of years in exchange for transportation to the colonies.
- 4. Along with checks, it is the power of each branch to counter the powers of the other branches
- 5. People who were in favor of the ratification of the Constitution and believed in a strong national government
- 6. Along with the Pilgrims, this dour group left England for the “New World” create a theocratic government – a government with laws based on religion.
- 9. The first direct tax on the colonists which required them to pay taxes on almost all paper goods
- 10. First conference where the Articles of Confederation were created
- 13. People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution without the inclusion of a Bill of Rights; believed in a weak central government with more powers given to the individual states
- 14. The division “of powers” between the three branches of government
- 15. The idea that government’s power is not absolute and that people hold certain “inalienable” rights.
Down
- 1. An agreement where people give up certain freedoms to the government in exchange for security.
- 3. Principles and laws that are the foundation of a nation’s government
- 7. The peculiar institution which is never mentioned in the Constitution but is the county’s original sin
- 8. Trade in slaves, manufactured goods, and raw material between the Americas, Europe and Africa
- 11. The first ten amendments to the constitution.
- 12. Absolute rule by a government that ignores the rights of the people