| A | B |
|---|
| In 1785 he created a new coin system | Thomas Jefferson |
| Revolutionary War soldier-turned-farmer led a rebellion against the government | Daniel Shays |
| officially ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris, 1783 |
| Document that created new land for states | Northwest Ordinance |
| Failed post-Revolutionary War government | Articles of Confederation |
| Surveyor, Revolutionary War general, the first president | George Washington |
| Some problems with Articles of Confederation | printed their own money, taxed each other, acted like separate countries |
| This law allowed states to expand by buying surveyed lands to their west | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| Last battle of the Revolution | Yorktown |
| Outlawed in the Northwest Territoryq | Slavery |
| 1st State created out of the Northwest Territory | Ohio |
| Who approved a State's Constitution to become a new state? | Congress |
| 1. governor, secretary, & 3 judges appointed 2. 5,000 Free males, elect a legislature 3. 60,000 people write a constitution to become a state | Steps to Statehood |
| The rivers that were the borders of the Northwest Territory | Mississippi & Ohio |
| Northern border of the Northwest Territory | Great Lakes |
| Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, & Ontario | Names of the Great Lakes |
