MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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Virginia
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Ohio
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Washington
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Detailed explanation-1: -These lands were generally referred to as the Northwest Territory and included the current states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
Detailed explanation-2: -February 19, 1803. Ohio became the first state formed from the Northwest Territory. Ohio entered the Federal Union as the seventeenth state.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Northwest Ordinance chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States, North-west of the river Ohio (The ordinance as passed July 13, 1787.