Across
- 4. proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
- 6. warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
- 8. Father of the constitution
- 9. someone who believes in the type of political system in which states or territories share control with a central government
- 12. fought between the United States and Great Britain, primarily over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy
- 13. a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War
- 14. three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
- 16. uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions
- 18. farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis
- 19. someone who is opposed to a system of government in which power is divided between a single central government and several regional one
- 20. taxes, dues, or fees placed on foreign goods
Down
- 1. gives the Supreme Court and federal courts the authority to interpret the Constitution.
- 2. government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.
- 3. treaty that brought an official end to the Mexican-American War
- 5. the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 180
- 7. the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
- 10. issued a proclamation of neutrality in the wake of war breaking out between France and a group of European allies that included Great Britain.
- 11. the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise.
- 15. someone who valued freedom and equality
- 17. "Give me liberty or give me death"