We're Free...Let's Grow

The Treaty of Paris at the end of the American Revolution provided the Americas with all of the answers listed below EXCEPT...

• Liberty

• Land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi

• Land between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi

• Part of the province of Quebec

What did the Confederation Congress feel was the best to pay off war debt?

• Borrow more money from France

• Make a deal with Spain

• Sell land in the unorganized territory of the Northwest

• Create a national bank

What did states do with the additional land they had acquired before the Revolution?

• sold it to the French

• paid Great Britain for it

• allowed the Native Americans to live there

• ceded to the US government

Which document divided land into 6 mile square townships with one mile sections?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Ordinance of 1785

• Constitution

• Bill or Rights

Which group was sitting on land in the Northwest territory which they had NOT purchased. However, they had built homes and raised crops on the land.

• Squatters

• Native Americans

• Militia

• American settlers

Which group was offered treaties which forced them to move to restricted areas of the Northwest territory?

• Squatters

• Native Americans

• Militia

• American settlers

According to the Northwest Ordinance how many states could make up the Northwest Territory?

• 1-3

• 3-5

• 6-8

• 8-10

What Native American chief resisted the encroachment of the Americans into the Northwest Territory?

• Geronimo

• Tecumseh

• Sitting Bull

• Little Turtle

What was prohibited in the new territory?

• Drinking

• Slavery

• Mining

• Farming

Who controlled the government of the territory before it became a state?

• US government

• the closest state's government

• a territorial government

• Chase Sutton's Great Great Great Grandfather