Across
- 7. created a single Northwest territory
- 9. believed that all humans had natural rights
- 11. led a mob of angry farmers in a revolt against the new government
- 13. Virginia Planter
- 15. Two part government
- 18. Guarantees certain freedoms and legal protection to citizens
- 19. opposed ratification of the new constitution
- 20. author of The Spirit of Laws
- 22. three branches of government limit the others
- 23. Roger Sherman proposed this to resolve the issue of representation
- 26. wrote the final draft of the Constitution
Down
- 1. creates laws
- 2. movement of the 1700s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science
- 3. compromise to count a slave as ⅗ of a free person
- 4. judicial,legislative, and executive
- 5. organized the first antislavery society in 1774
- 6. Limited the monarch's power
- 8. freeing of individual enslaved people
- 10. Supporters of the new constitution
- 12. Government by consent of the governed
- 14. two house legislature with the number of representatives proportional to each state’s population
- 16. single territory created by the Northwest Ordinance
- 17. document that Congress detailed their plans for a new government in
- 21. period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased
- 24. Philadelphia merchant
- 25. first state admitted to the union from the northwest territory