Across
- 2. A supreme power that rests in the hands of colonists.
- 5. Believed in life, liberty and property.
- 6. Compromise dividing congress into two houses.
- 8. Colonists that support the constitution.
- 9. Unified the states under one governing body.
- 12. Used logic and reason to figure things out.
- 13. First permanent English settlement in America.
Down
- 1. Every five enslaved people in a state would count as three free persons.
- 3. A secret group who opposed the Stamp Act.
- 4. Continental Congress declared the colonies be free from the British.
- 7. Three branches of government; checks and balances.
- 9. Colonists who want the Bill of Rights to be added to the Constitution.
- 10. Required colonists to pay a tax on any piece of paper.
- 11. Social contract; agreement between government and people being governed.