This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US Government & Constitution has 19 clues. Answers range from 4 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Road to Kentucky.
A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.
______ of Confederation (ratified in 1781).
____ Ordinance of 1785.
_________ Territory (West of Pennsylvania to Ohio River).
An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States.
A series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
Constitutional _________ (took place in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787).
The 4th President.
A proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.
A proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson.
An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
_____ _____ Compromise (the population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives).
The federal principle or system of government.
The supporters of the proposed Constitution called themselves ___________.
A movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government.
The Federalist ______ (a collection of 85 articles and essays).
_______ Mason ( a Virginia planter, politician, and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three men who refused to sign).
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.