Chapter 7 Vocabulary Practice

a document that organizes a government and states its powers

• constitution

• ratify

• ordinance

• credit

to approve formally, by vote

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• ratify

• sovereign

• credit

having the right to self-rule or independent government

• Shays' Rebellion

• sovereign

• constitutionalism

• federal

Massachusetts farmers in protest of high taxes

• Constitution

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Ordinance of 1785

• Shays' Rebellion

the concept of governing based on a constitution

• constitutionalism

• constitution

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Ordinance of 1785

the privilege of purchasing something or borrowing money and paying money back over time

• ordinance

• sovereign

• credit

• federal

relating to a government where power is shared between the central, national government, and that of states or provinces

• federal

• sovereign

• ratify

• ordinance

a legislation adopted by Congress to establish stricter control over the government of the Northwest Territory

• constitution

• Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Shays' Rebellion

an official law, decree, or directive

• ordinance

• constitution

• ratify

• Ordinance of 1785

a federal law that set up a system to allow settlers to purchased land in the undeveloped West

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Ordinance of 1785

• ratify

• Constitution