Statehood
Northwest Ordinance
Who is that?
Colonists
British
100
The year Ohio became a state.
What is 1803?
100
The 1st step of the 3 step plan of the Northwest Ordinance.
What is the step that chooses leaders- governor, secretary and 3 judges?
100
Governor of the Northwest Territory
Who is Arthur St. Clair?
100
The colonists were called "colonists" because
They lived in the 13 colonies ruled by Great Britain.
100
The King of the British
Who is King George III?
200
The number of state that Ohio is.
What is the 17th state?
200
The 2nd step of the 3 step plan.
Which step states that once 5,000 white males settle in a part of the territory , they can elect a legistature?
200
Stepped in to enable(allow) Ohio to start writing their constitution even before the population was 60,000
Who was Congress?
200
The reason behind the colonists being so angry with the British King.
The British King kept putting taxes on everyday items that the colonists would buy.
200
We did not like this document that the colonists wrote declaring their freedom from us
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
A count of the population.
What is a census?
300
The amount of people that needed to settle in the Northwest Territory for them to start writing a constitution.
What is 60,000 people?
300
These were the only people allowed to vote for the legislature.
Who is white males of voting age owning at least 50 acres of land?
300
How you would have felt if you were a colonist living during King George III rule and why.
Angry because we had to pay all these extra taxes and we didn't have a say so on it- no taxation without representation.
300
If you were the British King your feelings toward taxing the colonists and why.
Happy because we could help pay some of the French and Indian War debt and I would get some of the extra for me!
400
Ohio's first governor
Who is Edward Tiffin?
400
The Northwest Ordinance forbid this.
What is slavery?
400
1st governor of Ohio
Who is Edward Tiffin?
400
Important events of the Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded 3 ships and dumped 342 boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor.
400
The treaty that was signed that gave the colonists freedom from the British King's rule and the right to be called, "Americans."
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
500
The act that was passed to allow Ohio to start writing their constitution.
What is the Enabling Act?
500
The reason the 3 step plan was created in the Northwest Ordinance.
What was needed to help states to be created out of the Northwest Ordinance?
500
The general that led the Continental Army to victory for the US during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
500
The final straw that angered the colonists.
What is the Tea Act?
500
The reason the British taxed the colonists
To help pay off the debt from the French and Indian War.
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