A | B |
Democracy | A system of government in which people elect their leaders |
Census | A count of the population |
Political Party | Group of people who share similar ideas |
Capital | Center of the government for territory, state, or country |
Veto | The power of the executive branch to reject a bill passed by the legislative branch |
Constitution | A plan for the government that explains the governmnet and outlines it's important laws |
Enabling Act | Act passed by Congress that allowed Ohio to take their final step to statehood without 60,000 people |
Edward Tiffin | First governer of Ohio |
Arthur St. Clair | American general in the Revolutionary War and first governer of the Northwest Territory |
Gen. Josiah Harmer | American officer assigned to force squatters out of the Northwest Territory |
Gen "Mad" Anthony Wayne | U.S. General who defeated the Native Americans in the Battle of The Fallen Timbers |
Marietta Code | Laws for people living in the town of Marietta |
Maxwell Code | Law code that applied to everyone in the Northwest Territory |