a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases

forced courts in the western part of Massachusetts to close. The goal was to stop judges from legally taking away farmers' lands.

freeing of individual enslaved persons.

"Father of the Constitution"

Wrote the final draft of the Constitution

corresponding in size

called for representation in both houses of congress to be based on population

Under this plan, the legislature would have a single house, with each state having one vote.

a settlement of a dispute by each party giving up some demands

proposed the Great Compromise

Senate - two from each state, House of Representatives - based on population

every five enslaved persons would count as three persons in a state's population total