Forming a Government L1

The _ people examined many ideas about government.

• French

• Spanish

• English

• American

The _ laid the base for the first national government of the United States.

• Confederation Congress

• Articles of Confederation

The _ established the Northwest Territory.

• Articles of Confederation

• Confederation Congress

an English document, signed by King John in 1215, that limited the power of the monarch

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

• Land Ordinance of 1785

a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government

• Magna Carta

• constitution

voting rights

• suffrage

• ratification

a law that included Thomas Jefferson's ideas granting religious freedom

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Articles of Confederation

the new national constitution, which made a new Confederation Congress the national government

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

official approval by the states

• ratification

• suffrage

a law that set up a system for surveying land and dividing the Northwest Territory

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Land Ordinance of 1785