Creating a Government Tutorials

Northwest Ordinance

What the Northwest Ordinance Did

Requirements to Apply for Statehood

What settlers were forbidden from

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Created a process for admitting new states into the United
States

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The first step of westward expansion in the United States

●Population of 60,000 settlers

●Freedom of religion

●Provides trial by jury

●Outlawed slavery and encouraged education

●Practicing slavery

●Harming surrounding American Indians without
reason

Shays' Rebellion

Who: Massachusetts Farmers

What: Farmers believed they were being over taxed

Where: Western Massachusetts

When: 1786 - 1787

Why: The WEAK Central Government of the Articles could not help the farmers because the state was to STRONG

The Constitutional Convention

• ​In 1787 the Confederation Congress invited each state to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The goal of the meeting was to improve the Articles of Confederation. However, they created the US Constituion.

• ​James Madison was there. He was considered the father of the Constitution after it was all said and done. Revolutionary War hero George Washington was elected the president of the Convention.
  

Notes

●Number of Branches: 3

●Number of Houses in the
Legislature: 2

●Representation Based on:
Population

●Favored by: Large Population
States

●Number of Branches: 3

●Number of Houses in the
Legislature: 2

●Representation Based on:

○House of
Representatives =
population

○Senate = Equality 2
per state

●Number of Branches: 3

●Number of Houses in the
Legislature: 1

●Representation Based on:
Equality

●Favored by: Small Population
States

Virginia Plan

Great Compromise

New Jersey Plan

Three-Fifths Compromise

• Northern States wanted enslaved people to count for taxation NOT representation.

• Southern States wanted enslaved people to count for representation NOT taxation.

• In the end, the delegates agreed to the Three-Fifths Compromise. Slavery would not be abolished, and every five slaves would count as three people toward a state’s population for taxing and representation purposes.