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	During this interactive broadcast, students will be transported back to a tavern in 1802 and join in a debate over whether Ohio should become a state or remain within the Northwest Territory. Students will learn about Territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair's and Representative Thomas Worthington's differing plans for Ohio's path to statehood. Students will actively participate in this debate and help decide Ohio's future.

Ohio's Path to Statehood: The Debate Over Statehood
Ohio's Path to Statehood:
The Debate Over Statehood
Availability: Weekdays, year round, by request

Time Allowance:
45 minutes per program

Grades:
4, 5, and 8

Play The Game!
It's 1797 and you're moving from Virginia to the Northwest Territory.
Take a try at loading your wagon... will you make it to Ohio?

Case History
Rent the Path to Statehood Case History traveling trunk and interact with documents and artifacts.

Primary Sources
View the Frontier Conflict Resources Scrapbook available at Ohio Memory.

For lesson plan samples and full descriptions, see Path to Statehood Lessons.

The Branches of Government
A Conflict of Ideas among Ohio's Leaders
The Enabling Act of 1802
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Object, Document, and Image Reading and Study
Post Broadcast Lesson Plan
Thomas Worthington's Political Journeys
The U.S. and Ohio Constitutions
Who Should Have the Right to Vote?
Whose History Is It?

For more information or to order any of these lesson plans, contact us

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