Across
- 3. To force American sailors into the British or French Navy.
- 4. A proposed law.
- 6. The group of people who supported the new Constitution of the US.
- 7. The site of agreement between the US and France that ended their alliance and required France to pay the US for ship damage.
- 11. To import and export goods with other nations.
- 13. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution that was ratified in 1791 and guaranteed rights like freedom of speech, assembly, and worship.
- 15. The principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people through elected reps.
- 17. To approve something.
- 18. 4 laws passed by congress in 1798 to limit the freedom of the press & foreign influence in the US.
- 20. Licenses given to US shipowners by France to commit piracy and fit a vessel to capture British merchant ships.
- 22. To have authority and power.
- 23. To charge a public official with misconduct.
Down
- 1. The political part created by Jefferson and Madison in the 1790s that supported republicanism, agrarianism, equality, and expansionism.
- 2. A body of people representing the states that cast votes for the election of the president and VP.
- 5. A political and diplomatic episode between 1797-98 involving a confrontation between the US and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War.
- 8. People who invest in stocks, property, and other ventures to make profit.
- 9. To have authority of administering justice in a region.
- 10. To reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
- 12. A tax protest in the US between 1791-94 over a tax placed on whiskey.
- 14. A group of people with similar beliefs who follow their own interests instead of other's interests.
- 16. A type of government that combines a general govt with a regional govt into a single govt dividing the powers between the two.
- 19. The of legislative authority to reject a veto of a bill by voting again to get a 2/3 majority.
- 21. A tax on foreign trade items.