ss vocabulary

- a charter of liberties agreed to by King John of England, it made the king obey the same laws as citizens

Magna Carta

- a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government

Constitution

-a document that gave people in Virginia freedom of worship and prohibited tax money from being used to fund churches

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

- voting rights

Suffrage

- the document that created the first central government for the United States; was replaced by the constitution in 1789

Articles of Confederation

- an official approval

Ratification

- legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country

Land Ordinance of 1785

- legislation passed by Congress to establish a political structure for the Northwest Territory and create a system for admission of new states

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

- lands including present-day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; organized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Northwest Territory