Articles of Confederation

Formal approval that had to be given by all 13 state legislatures before the Articles of Confederation could go into effect

• suffrage

• ratification

• republic

• constitution

Political philosopher who believed a social contract existed between political leaders and the people they governed

• John Locke

• John Lincoln

• Joseph Locke

• Lincoln Locke

Vast region that included present day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin

• New England

• Northeast Territory

• Louisiana Territory

• Northwest Territory

Voting rights

• republic

• suffrage

• constitution

• ratification

Legislation that protected religious freedom and forbade the establishment of an official church

• New England Town Meeting

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Act passed by Congress that created a system of limited self government for the settlers living in the Northwest Territory

• Northwest Territory

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Articles of Confederation

Governing body for the states under the Articles of Confederation, in which each state had one vote

• Northwest Territory

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Confederation Congress

Type of government where the head of state is elected and in which the people hold the political power

• republic

• constitution

• ratification

• suffrage

Set of basic principles and laws that determine the powers and duties of government

• constitution

• ratification

• suffrage

• republic

Surveys that divided public lands into townships of 36 square miles, which in turn were divided into 36 lots of 640 acres each

• Northwest Territory

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Articles of Confederation