| A | B |
| Wilderness Road | trail into Kentucky Daniel Boone helped build |
| Republic | people choose representatives to govern them |
| Articles of Confederation | law that governed the nation during and after the Revolutionary War, before the Constitution |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | cut Western lands into 6 mile plots |
| Northwest Territory | Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota |
| Northwest Ordinance | described how Northwest Territory would be governed |
| wage war, make peace, sign treaties, issue money | powers held by National government under the Articles of Confederation |
| set taxes, enforce national laws, one vote in Congress | powers held by the states under the Articles of Confederation |
| Shays's Rebellion | Massachusetts farmers marched on a federal arsenal in protest of taxes |