MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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Congress would appoint a group of five leaders to govern the territory
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All individuals living in the territiory had the right to vote.
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The territorial Governor had to deliver a State of the Union to Congress.
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Slavery was to be banned in all parts of the Northwest territory.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A bill of rights protecting religious freedom, the right to a writ of habeas corpus, the benefit of trial by jury, and other individual rights; in addition the ordinance encouraged education and forbade slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Considered one of the most important legislative acts of the Confederation Congress, the Northwest Ordinance also protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 13, 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance-an act that established a framework for governing the Northwest Territory, admitting new states, and protecting the civil liberties of settlers. It also banned slavery in the new territories.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was demonstrably clear that the states carved from the Northwest Territory would not be slave states. That the 1787 ordinance prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude was not as controversial as it might appear in the context of American history.