MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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more than doubled the size of the United States.
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established a method for admitting new states to the Union.
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encouraged state legislatures to ratify the Constitution.
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proposed treaties with American Indians to allow the peaceful settlement of new territories.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Also known as the Ordinance of 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a government for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union, and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen states.
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: -Expert-Verified Answer. The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set the pattern for the United States to expand westward across North America by admitting new states rather than expanding existing ones.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why is it Important?-The Northwest Ordinance was an important law because it established the pattern by which the rest ot the West would be settled.-All other territories would have to got through the same process of becoming a state.-The Northwest Ordinance made sure that the settlement of the West was orderly.