Chapter 5: Shaping a New Nation Crossword

An opponent of a strong national government?
A document, adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States.
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens’ rights and freedoms?
The provisions in the U.S. Constitution that prevent any branch of the U.S. government from dominating the other two branches?
An alliance preventing states or nations to act together on matters of mutual concern?
A group selected by the states to elect the president and the vice-president, in which each state’s number of electorsis equal to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress?
The branch of government that administers and enforces the law?
A political system in which a national government and constituent units, such as states governments, share power?
A series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
Supporters of the constitution and of a strong national government
The Constitutional Covention’s agreement to establish a two-house national legislative, with all state having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house?
The branch f government that interprets the laws and the Constitution?
A law the established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains?
The branch of government that makes laws?
A law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the Union?
The official approval of the Constitution, or of an amendment, by the states?
A government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives?
The belief that government should be based on the consent of the people?
An uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes in 1787
The Constitutional Convention’s agreement to count three-fifths of a state’s slaves as population for purposes of representatives and taxation