STAAR: Northwest Ordinance

Strengths
-Ability to declare war
-Ability to make treaties
Authority to operate post offices

Which document was the focus of the presentation?

• A. Mayflower Compact

• B. The Articles of Confederation

• C. The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• D. The Declaration of Independence

Which Headline describes an event that established guidelines for the admission of new states to the Union?

• A. Northwest Ordinance Passed

• B. Treaty of Paris Ratified

• Bill of Right Ratified

• D. Alien & Sedition Acts

After the end of the Revolutionary War, states were eager to expand into newly available territory. The states of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia argued over competing claims to land west of the Appalachian Mountains. This conflict was addressed by the ____.

• F. Missouri Compromise

• G. Wilmot Proviso

• H. Northwest Ordinance

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• A. have a population of sixty thousand free settlers

• B. hold a vote on weather to become a free of slave territory

• C. establish on public school per district

• D. Have a territorial governor appointed by the president

• A. Declaration of Independence

• B. Treaty of Ghent

• C. Northwest Ordinance

• D. Louisiana Purchase Treaty

• A. by funding a transportation network in uninhabited regions

• B. by establishing a process for territories to govern themselves

• C. by promoting the growth of southern plantation economies

• D. by creating a national bank to loan money to land investors

• F. method to purchase territory from foreign powers

• G. procedure for military takeovers of existing countries

• H. process through which states could be added to the Union

• J. compromise line that prohibited slavery in the West

• F. more than doubled the size of the United States

• G. established a method for admitting new states into the Unio

• H. encouraged state legislatures to ratify the Constitution

• J. proposed treaties with American Indians to allow the peaceful settlement of new territories

The Northwest Ordinance was a process for admitting ___ ______ into the Union.

Match the following

• Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness

• Declaration of Independence

• 1787, process of admitting new states into U.S.

• Northwest Ordinance

• 1783, USA is independent & acquired new land

• Treaty of Paris

• 1776, defined our rights to defeat tyranny

• grievances

• complaints against the King

• Unalienable Rights