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| Articles of Confederation | The first written plan of government for the United States. |
| Northwest Territory | A region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. |
| Treaty of Paris in 1783 | The region from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and Great Lakes given to the US |
| Northwest Ordinance | a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed; divided the Northwest Territory into smaller territories |
| Banned in the Northwest Terriotry | Slavery |
| Apply to Congress to become a state | Under the Northwest Ordinance when the population reached 60,000 |
| Shay's Rebellion | Farmers rebelled against the government taking their land when they could not earn enough to pay their debts and taxes |
| Constitutional Convention | Meeting held in 1787 in Philadelphia to write the US Constitution |
| Constitution | a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government |
| The Virginia Plan | Based on a states population -developed a plan with strong national government with 3 branches |
| The New Jersey Plan | Based on a states equal vote - developed a plan with a government with three branches; legislative branch has one house |
| The Great Compromise | Established a two-house congress |
| House of Respresentatives | Representation from each state based on a state's population |
| Senate | Each state is represented by two senators |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | Slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's pop. for rep. in the House of Representatives |
