Across
- 4. A constitutional arrangement where power is divided between the national and sub national governments
- 10. Feature of constitution that requires each of the three branches of government to be independent of each other
- 12. Document written in 1787 the set forth the institutional structure of the US Government
- 14. Address at the end of his presidency, warned against “permanent alliances”
- 15. Aimed at saving the British East India Company, it allowed the company to sell tea directly to the colonists
- 17. Officially ended the American Revolutionary War
- 18. First ten amendments to the US constitution
- 19. Drafted the Declaration of Independence
- 20. Printer, author, inventor, and founding Father.
- 21. Formal announcement of independence written by Thomas Jefferson
- 22. The first American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of sovereign states
Down
- 1. Opponents of the 1787 Constitution, feared the rights of individual's liberties in the absence of a bill of rights
- 2. Taxes placed on imported British goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to pay colonial governor and judge salaries
- 3. Act because British was deeply in debt because of the French & Indian War
- 5. A Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston
- 6. Patriotic group that played a central role in agitating against the Stamp Act
- 7. Passed immediately after the repeal of the Stamp Act, this act declared that Parliament had full authority to make laws binding the colonies
- 8. Tensions from Townshend Acts boiled over, resulting in British soldiers killing five colonists
- 9. Party that follows a strict interpretation of the constitution and favors a small government
- 11. political theory of representative government, based on principle of popular sovereignty
- 13. Tax on an array of paper goods, repealed in 1766
- 16. Led by Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty, protesters disguised as Mohawk Indians destroyed tea