MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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Established the precedent for the admission of new states into the Union.
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Established the practice for President to serve for only two terms of office.
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Established a mechanism for funding public education in the future.
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Established the precedent by which a President would select advisors to head executive departments.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the ordinance, slavery was forever outlawed from the lands of the Northwest Territory, freedom of religion and other civil liberties were guaranteed, the resident Indians were promised decent treatment, and education was provided for.
Detailed explanation-2: -Provisions of the Northwest Ordinance presaged several provisions of the Constitution and the First Amendment and announced a prohibition of slavery in the states to be formed out of the territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established the precedent by which the United States would expand westward across North America by the admission of new states, rather than by the expansion of existing states.
Detailed explanation-4: -With regard to slavery, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: banned slavery in the area north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.