Across 3. government department that interprets the laws 5. impose or raise a tax 7. uprising of Massachusetts farmers who demanded debt relief 9. proposal for a two-house legislature with representation according to each state's population or wealth 11. the ability of each branch of government to exercise controls over the other branches 13. proposal for a legislature in which each state would have one vote 14. 1787 meeting at which the U.S. Constitution was created 15. government department that makes the laws 16. agreement to establish a two-house legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house, and each state having representation based on its population in the other house 18. lands northwest of the Appalachians, covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785 19. prominent adviser to the Constitutional Convention 20. law that described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed 21. place where weapons are stored

Down 1. national legislative body formed by the Articles of Confederation 2. plan for national government ratified in 1781 4. state, country or nation in which people elect representatives to govern them 6. law that established a plan for dividing the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains 8. agreement that 3/5 of a state's slave population would be counted for representation & taxation 10. act of official confirmation 12. government department that enforces the laws 17. people who helped create the U.S. Constitution