Forming A Government

an English document that limited the power of the monarch

• Magna Carta

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freddom

• Articles of Confederation

• constitution

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

• Magna Carta

• constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

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

• Magna Carta

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• suffrage

voting rights

• Magna Carta

• suffrage

• ratification

• constitution

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

• Magna Carta

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• Land Ordinance of 1787

• Articles of Confederation

official approval of the Articles of Confederation by the states

• constitution

• Magna Carta

• ratification

• suffrage

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

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Northwest Territory

• Magna Carta

a law that established the Northwest Territory and formed a political system for the region

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

a territory including Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Northwest Territory

• Magna Carta