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Across
  1. 3. A new set of rules we live under today
  2. 4. The era of John Locke, Montesquieu, and others who changed politics.
  3. 5. This war was what the Americans fought against the British to gain independence.
  4. 8. The first social contract in America signed by Massachusetts Colonists named for this ship.
  5. 9. When a king or queen rules and sometimes controls laws
  6. 12. A farmer named Shay started this in the 1780's.
Down
  1. 1. The ARTICLES OF this were the first set of laws in the United States.
  2. 2. This document sealed our fate as a brand-new nation.
  3. 6. What the Declaration of Independence pushed for the Americans.
  4. 7. The first President under the new Constitution
  5. 10. An issue with the Articles of Confederation.
  6. 11. The biggest issue with the Articles of Confederation.