a country governed by elected representatives

• republic

• committed

• colony

• Constitutional Convention

the “Age of Reason” in 17th- and 18th-century Europe. Enlightenment thinkers emphasized using rational thought to discover truths about nature and society.

• dispute

• rebelled

• Enlightenment

• democratic

a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

• The Federalist Papers

• militia

• contradiction

• Northwest Territory

to formally approve a plan or an agreement. The process of approval is called ratification.

• militia

• dispute

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• ratify

the group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. Voters in each state choose their electors.

• Electoral College

• Articles of Confederation

• impose

• The Federalist Papers

a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed

• right

• Great Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance

• Enlightenment

the first written plan of government for the United States. A confederation is an association of states that cooperate for a common purpose.

• Articles of Confederation

• right

• slavery

• impose

an agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation in the House of Representatives

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• ratify

• Northwest Territory

a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government

• slavery

• constitution

• colony

• right

the plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.

• Great Compromise

• contradiction

• Northwest Territory

• Electoral College