Forming A Government Crossword

Lands including present-day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; organized by the Northwest ordnance of 1787
The document that created the first central government for the U.S.A.; was replaced by the constitution
A charter of liberties agreed to by King John of England, it made the king obey the same laws as citizens
A set of basic principles and duties of a government
An official approval
A trade between 2 or more states
A meeting in Philadelphia which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosure
Increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money
A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment
A two-house legislature
An agreement that only 3/5s of the slaves in a state would count when determining the state populations for representation on lower Congress
The first 10 Amendments
This keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful
It divides the government’s powers between a central government and the states that make up a nation
A tax on imports or exports
A poor farmer and Revolutionary war veteran, who led men to a shut down of the Supreme Court
The idea that political authority belongs to the people
People who opposed ratification of the Constitution
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
Includes the president and the departments that help run the government
All national courts
Congress, which is responsible for proposing and passing laws
To plead in favor of
Gave each state an equal number of votes, and thus an equal voice, in the federal government
The idea that the national government would have supreme power and that the legislative branch would have 2 houses with representation determined by state population