Treaty of Paris
This famous inventor and diplomat was one of the three main American negotiators.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is what Congress was in charge of printing and borrowing to pay the nation’s bills.
What is money?
This is the minimum number of free settlers a territory needed before it could apply to become a state.
What is 60,000?
The year this law was passed by Congress to organize the new western lands.
What is 1785?
Instead of toothpaste, Americans often used a mixture of burnt bread and honey to clean these.
What are teeth?
This great river became the new western boundary of the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
A power Congress had to decide if the U.S. would go to war or make peace with another country.
What is declaring war?
The year this important law was passed by the Confederation Congress.
What is 1787?
The Ordinance divided the land into six-mile squares called this.
What are townships?
The first type of transportation invented in the 1780s that used a giant balloon filled with hot air.
What is the hot air balloon?
The U.S. got all the land that was south of the Great Lakes and north of this Spanish-held territory.
What is Florida?
What Congress could sign with France or Spain, and send official representatives to those countries.
What is making treaties and alliances?
The law promised to protect these rights for settlers, like freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial.
What are basic rights?
The Ordinance set aside one specific section in every township to be sold to raise money for this.
What is public schools?
The main way to travel long distances over land, since cars hadn't been invented yet.
What is a horse?
This is the year the treaty was signed, formally ending the Revolutionary War.
What is 1783?
If New York and New Jersey argued about their border, Congress was the only one that could step in and solve the fight.
What are settling state arguments?
When a territory had five thousand of these, they could form a temporary government and elect a legislature.
What are free adult males?
This system of using lines to create square units made it easy to survey, sell, and settle the land.
What is the grid system?
The first set of rules for the U.S. government, which was later found to be too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The U.S. was given rights to catch fish off the coast of Canada in the area known as Newfoundland.
What are fishing rights?
This non-military power gave Congress the job of setting up the entire mailing system for citizens to communicate across state lines.
What is establishing post offices?
This famous Founding Father, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, also wrote the first plan for this land.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Since the government couldn't tax, this was the lowest amount of money a person had to pay to buy one section of land.
What is $1 per acre?
The American general who became famous for his betrayal when he secretly offered to surrender a fort to the British.
Who is Benedict Arnold?