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