Ch 5 Lesson 1 Country's First Government

Match the following

• Articles of Confederation

• law that set up government in the Northwest Territory in the Great Lakes region

• English Bill of Rights

• law that made plan for surveying the Northwest Territory in the Great Lakes region

• Northwest Ordinance

• document that created the first national government for the United States

• Ordinance of 1785

• lists of rights in state constitutions can be traced back to this original historical document

The influence of the Magna Carta on the leaders who wrote state constitutions is shown in

• having a bicameral legislature.

• having a strong governor.

• the inclusion of a list of rights.

• language limiting the king’s power.

Why is the first national government of the United States called a confederation?

• States were dependent on each other.

• States were relatively independent.

• States were stronger than local government.

• States were weaker than the national government.

The Northwest Territory was bounded by

• the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains.

• the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.

• the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

• the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Ocean.