Unit 2 Homework Assignment-Vocabulary Activity Crossword

A country or area under the full or political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
A document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
Belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
To combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion.
A more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority.
Having two branches or chambers.
The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights.
An implicit agreement among the member of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
A pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.
The representative of a Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.
To revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment, abrogate.
Freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others.
A body of fundamental principles or established precendents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledge to be governed.
Mercantile practices or spirit, commercialism
Jointed or packed together, closely and firmly united, dense, solid.
An association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business.
A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
A person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th and 19th centuries.
A more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority.
Sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.
The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787, all states were invited to send delegates.
An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined legislative structure.
A compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
(In the US) A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.
A person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority.
The federal principle or system of government.
Refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.