| 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 |