Unit 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. list of freedoms that the government promises to protest, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
  2. 4. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
  3. 9. of 1785 set up a system for settling the Northwest Territory, it created the townships that we have today
  4. 12. the first American constitution, created a very loose alliance of the 13 independent states
  5. 13. a principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branch
  6. 16. a system of government in which citizens choose representatives to govern them
  7. 17. A written plan of government
Down
  1. 1. an agreement at the Constitutional Convention that three fifths of the enslaved residents in any state be counted in its population
  2. 3. proposed by James Madison, it called for a strong national government with representation being based on a states population
  3. 5. a British document signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic right
  4. 6. a plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states
  5. 7. the plan at the Constitutional Convention, favored by smaller states, that called for three branches of government with a single-chamber legislature
  6. 8. to change
  7. 10. set up a government for the Northwest Territory, guaranteed basic rights to settlers, and outlawed slavery
  8. 11. a supporter of a strong federal government
  9. 14. to approve
  10. 15. a supporter of a strong federal government