MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
CREATING STATE CONSTITUTIONS AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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public lands would be auctioned to the highest bidder.
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groups of townships could petition to become states.
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the US was now claiming territory also claimed by Britain.
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settlers and investors could buy formerly public land.
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Detailed explanation-1: –The Confederation of the United States Congress was responsible for passing the Land Ordinance of the year 1785 on 20th May of 1785. It established a standardized system for settlers to buy the title to undeveloped farmlands in the west.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Land Ordinance of 1785 was passed by the U.S. Congress under the Articles of Confederation. It laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold. The method of creating townships and sections within townships was used for all U.S. land after 1785.
Detailed explanation-3: -What made the passage of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance possible? EXPLANATION: The national government could not pass the ordinances until it was able to lay claim to those lands that the ordinances specified.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Ordinance of 1785 provided for the scientific surveying of the territory’s lands and for a systematic subdivision of them. Land was to be subdivided according to a rectangular grid system. The basic unit of land grant was the township, which was a square area measuring six miles on each side.