Week 18 Vocab Mastery (SS/2026)

a government in which people elect representatives

• democracy

• republic

• confederation

• monarchy

approved in 1781, outlined the government of the new United States

• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

law to survey and sell federally owned land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Land Ordinance of 1785
• Water Ordinance of 1785
• Northwest Ordinance

• Air Ordinance of 1785

territory that included land that formed Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota

• Northwest Territory
• Southeast Territory
• Northeast Territory
• Southwest Territory

Law that described how the Northwest Territory would be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights

• Northwest Ordinance
• Midwest Ordinance
• Northeast Ordinance
• Southwest Ordinance