Northwest Ordinance 1787

What is the name of the document that ends the War for Independence? 

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Declaration of Independence

What were the boundaries in 1783?

• Canada, Spanish Florida, Mississippi River, Atlantic Ocean

• Spanish Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Canada

• Atlantic Ocean, Mississippi River, Pacific Ocean

Great Britain went to war against who in 1754

• French and Indians

• British Colonies

What happened when the settlers moved into the western territories

• They found no suitable land for farming

• Attacked by Native Indians

• Formed alliances and shared the land Peaceably with the Native Americans 

What is the name of the British document that prevented settling West of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation of 1763

Why did the British tax the colonies?

• To pay for soldiers to protect the western lands

• To help the colonists make money

After the American Revolution, what did the colonist gain?

• Lands South of Canada, and east of the Mississippi River

• Gained Spanish Florida

What is the name of the plan that had control of the western lands?

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Ohio River Valley

When could a territory apply for statehood?

• Achieved a population of 6,000 people

• Achieved a population of 60,000 people

• Achieved a population of 600,000 people

What five states came out of the Northwest Territory?

• Wisconsin

• Michigan

• Illinois 

• Ohio

• Indiana