USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Northwest Territory was made up by the head of the Mississippi River and north from the Ohio River. Basically, it was Wisconsin and Minnesota south to the Mississippi River’s confluence with the Ohio, and eastward up the Ohio River to western Pennsylvania.

Detailed explanation-2: -After gaining independence from Great Britain, one of the many contentious issues facing the United States were competing claims to western lands. 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-3: -It created the Northwest Territory, the new nation’s first organized incorporated territory, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British North America and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the territory’s western boundary.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Officially titled “An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio, ” the Northwest Ordinance was adopted on July 13, 1787, by the Confederation Congress, the one-house legislature operating under the Articles of Confederation.