| A | B |
|---|
| Declaration of Independence | A document explaining why the colonists should be free |
| tax | Money people pay to the government for services |
| American Revolution | The war fought by colonists to end British rule |
| Northwest | Area west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| scout | Someone who gathers information about the enemy |
| mission | A settlement where Europeans taught Ntive Americans the Christian religion |
| Appalachian Mountains | A law was passed that said colonists couldn't cross here. |
| British | Who kept taxing the colonists? |
| Colonists | They won the Revolutionary War. |
| independence | The colonist were tired of being controlled. They wanted this. |
| tea | The colonists were so mad, they dumped this into the harbor. |
| pioneers | A person who settles on land that is new to them |
| flatboats | A large boat with a flat bottom used on rivers |
| Ohio Company | A group that bought land in the Northwest Territory to sell for a profit |
| Northwest Ordinance | A law to set up a plan for government in the Northwest Territory |
| The number of people needed to write a constitution | 60,000 |
| The number of white males needed for a legislature | 5,000 |
