Answer on a half sheet of paper

1. Answer on a half sheet of paper • Name the 5 states that made up the Northwest Territory. • Name the two rivers that made up the southern and western border of the Northwest Territory. • Name the 5 lakes that made up the northern boundary of the Northwest Territory.

2. Ch. 8 Creating the Constitution • Articles of Confederation • Northwest Ordinance • Shays Rebellion • Constitutional Convention • Slavery • State Representation • The Virginia Plan • The New Jersey Plan • The Great Compromise

3. Articles of Confederation • The first plan of government • Loose union of states • Each state one vote • Congress could not impose taxes • Gave Congress the power to • Make war and peace • Raise an army and a navy • Print money • Set up a postal system

4. Northwest Ordinance • Northwest Territory divided into smaller territories • Each governed by a territorial governor • 5,000 men, could elect a legislature • 60,000 people could apply to become a state

5. Slavery was banned in the Northwest territory

6. Land Ordinance of 1785 • Western lands were divided into six mile squares called townships • Each township divided into 36 sections of 640 acres • These sections of 640 acres would be sold to settlers

7. Shays’s Rebellion • States printed their own money • Bills of different sizes and color floated from state to state • No one knew how much these bills were worth and they were not worth much • Farmers could not pay their debts and taxes • Judges ordered them to sell their land and livestock to pay their debt