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| Territory comprised of the following states: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Part of Minnesota. |
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| Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. |
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| Land Ordinance (1784 and 1785) |
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| Laws that provided for the surveying and selling of what were then America's western lands. |
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| Laws passed by congress in 1785 and 1787 organizing the Northwes territory for settlement and statehood. |
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| Proportional representation |
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| The number of a state's representatives would depend on the state's population. |
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| Constitutional compromise dividing the congress into two houses: the senate with equal representation and the house with proportional representation. |
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| This divided the legislature into two bodies senate and House of Representatives. |
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| Compromise that stated that for purpose of representation, Five slaves equaled three free people. This compromise was used to determine a state's population. |
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| Slave trade and commerce compromise |
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| Constitutional compromise that pemitted congress to regulate trade and allowed the slave trade to continue at least another twenty years. |
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| First ten amendments of the constitution, emphaizing individual liberties. |
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| Body that elects the president and vice president of the United States. |
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| Early (1787) rebellion by famers against which president George Washington used federal power and troops. |
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