Across
- 2. people who supported ratification of the Constitution
- 5. official change, correction,or addition to a law or constitution
- 6. the plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have two houses with representation determined by state population
- 10. an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state’s population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature
- 11. the division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws
- 14. led hundreds of men to shut down the Supreme Court in an event that became known as Shays’s Rebellion
- 15. the division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts; interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states
- 17. an anti-federalist who opposed the constitution and believed the Constitution needed a section guaranteeing individual rights
- 19. a meeting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution
- 22. to plead in favor of
- 24. an agreement worked out at the constitutional convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count when determining a state’s population for representation in the lower house of Congress
- 25. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
- 26. trade between two or more states
- 29. a series of essays that defended and explained the constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the proposed national government
- 30. an uprising of Massachusetts’ farmers, led by Daniels Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures
- 32. an official approval
- 33. a charter of liberties agreed to by King John of England, it made the king obey the same laws as citizens
- 34. a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government
Down
- 1. a tax on imports or exports
- 3. the division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments; enforces the nation’s laws
- 4. The fourth president, delegate of the Constitutional Convention, and author of the Bill of Rights.
- 7. the document that created the first central government of the United States; was replaced by the Constitution in 1789
- 8. a proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population; rejected at the Constitutional Convention
- 9. a document that gave people in Virginia freed of worship and prohibited tax money from being used to fund churches
- 12. legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country
- 13. legislation passed by Congress to establish a political structure for the Northwest Territory and create a system for the admission of new states
- 16. a steep drop in economic activity combined with rising unemployment
- 18. U.S. system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states
- 20. a system established by the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
- 21. people who opposed ratification of the Constitution
- 23. lands including present-day Illinois, INdiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; organized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- 27. voting rights
- 28. the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791
- 31. increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money