The Articles and U.S. Constitution

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Across
  1. 7. Armed groups of farmers that forced several courts to close in order to prevent farm foreclosures and the loss of their farms
  2. 8. this is when a document is not sanctioned by law.
  3. 9. This plan for government gave the smaller states more power.
  4. 13. In 1787, this established the principle that the territories were to be developed for statehood on an equal basis with the older states.
  5. 15. this is what the states did when they yielded their territories to the central government in order to provide a focus for national unity.
Down
  1. 1. commerce Trade among the states.
  2. 2. Single-chamber Congress
  3. 3. political disorder.
  4. 4. This plan for government took aspects from the Virginia and New Jersey plans to create a compromise.
  5. 5. This group was for ratification of the Constitution.
  6. 6. to approve.
  7. 10. This group was against ratifying the Constitution.
  8. 11. This plan for government gave the larger, more populous states greater control of the national government.
  9. 12. This person is considered to be the Father of the Constitution.
  10. 14. laws that provide for the organization of territories.