Ch.8 Sections 1-4

The delegates in Congress wrote a weak set of laws for the new country.  What was this called?

• The Proclamation of 1763
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Bill of Rights

Formerly called the Ohio River Valley, this area of land was from the Ohio to the Mississippi River, including the Great Lakes.

• The Oregon Trail
• The Louisiana Territory
• The Northwest Territory

According to this ordinance, once 60,000 free adult males lived in a territory, it could apply to become a state.

• The Northwest Ordinance
• The Land Ordinance
• The Population Ordinance

The purpose of this meeting in 1787 was to revise the Articles of Confederation, but the delegates instead wrote a new Constitution.

• The First Continental Congress
• The Constitutional Convention
• The Meeting of the Minds

The "Age of Reason", a time of liberal thinking about nature and equality that happened in Europe in the 17th and 18th century.

• The Renaissance
• The Medieval Time
• The Enlightenment

When citizens vote for representatives

• A republic
• A monarchy
• A dictatorship

How a state is governed; laws/rights that are listed and followed.

• Constitution
• Deed
• Proclamation

What was one major weakness of the Articles of Confederation

• Congress had no power to impose tax
• States were fighting about trade
• All of these

What ordinance simply divided the NW territory into 6 mile square townships?

• The Land Ordinance of 1785
• The NW Ordinance
• The Divisional Ordinance

Territories of the NW Territory eventually became_________

• Countries
• States
• Owned by Great Britain