Early Government (Pre-Constitution)

This was the First written Constitution of the U.S.

• Constitution

• MayFlower Compact

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independance

The document that governed the United States of America after the Revolutionary War.

• Magna Carta

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• English Bill of Rights

To approve. The act of ratification involves voting to approve and adopt a given document.

• Inflation

• Suffrage

• Tariff

• Ratification

Set up a system to survey and divide up lands in the west. Land was set aside for government buildings, a school, veterans and the rest sold.

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Territory

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Shays’ Rebellion

This area included modern day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota &

Wisconsin.

• Northwest Territory

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Tariff

Establishes the Northwest Territory and the process by which new states can come into the Union.

• Northwest Territory

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Tariff

This term refers to the main government of a nation. This is the same thing as a federal government.

• Interstate Commerce

• Intrastate Commerce

• Central Government

• Tarrif

Commerce or trade that crosses state lines.

• Interstate Commerce

• Intrastate Commerce

• Tarrif

• Central Government

A revolutionary soldier and farmer from Massachusetts who led the Shays’ Rebellion.

• George Washington

• Daniel Shays

• Samuel Adams

• Alexander Hamilton

An organized rebellion that took place in western Massachusetts over taxes and war debts.

• Constitutional Convention

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Shays' Rebellion