MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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north and west of the Ohio River, including present day Ohio
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south and east of the Louisiana Purchase
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in the present day Northwest region, including the states of Oregon and Washington
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in present day Canada
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Northwest Territory included all the then-owned land of the United States west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and northwest of the Ohio River. It incorporated most of the former Ohio Country except a portion in western Pennsylvania, and eastern Illinois Country.
Detailed explanation-2: -Northwest Territory, U.S. territory created by Congress in 1787 encompassing the region lying west of Pennsylvania, north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -When the Confederation Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance July 13, 1787, it created the Northwest Territory. Territorial boundaries were (a) on the east, the western border of the state of Pennsylvania; (b) on the north, the Great Lakes; (c) on the west, the Mississippi River; and (d) on the south, the Ohio River.
Detailed explanation-5: -Northwest Ordinance was a plan to organize the Northwest Territory into new states. When the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War in 1783, the United States laid claim to lands stretching from the Ohio River west to the Mississippi and north to the Great Lakes.