Chapter 8 Terms Crossword
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
 
 
Down: 2) The group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. Voters in each state choose their electors.3) The first written plan of government for the United States. A confederation in an association of states that cooperate for a common purpose.6) a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government7) A region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.9) a basic set of rules to develop a larger plan12) The plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.13) to agree or pledge to support someone or something15) not limited to or established by traditional views; broad minded Across: 1) The "Age of Reason" in the 17th and 18th-century Europe. Thinkers in this age emphasized (or put focus upon) using rational thought to discover truths about nature and society.4) A series of essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in support of the ratification of the Constitution by the states.5) A meeting held in Philedelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution.8) An agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in the House of Representatives.10) a country governed by elected representatives11) To formally approve a plan or an agreement. 14) a difference between two statements or situations that means they cannot both be true16) a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed
 

 

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