MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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A plan to gain the Northwest Territory and eventually allow the states formed from the Northwest Territory to be admitted into the United States.
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A plan to govern the Northwest Territory and eventually stop the states formed from the Northwest Territory to be admitted into the United States.
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A plan to govern the Northwest Territory and eventually allow the states formed from the Southwest Territory to be admitted into the United States.
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A plan to govern the Northwest Territory and eventually allow the states formed from the Northwest Territory to be admitted into the United States.
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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: -Despite the drawbacks of the Articles of Confederation, the laws Congress created relating to the Northwest Territory proved to be a major success. These laws defined the basic rights of settlers and established federal support for education.
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: -Three years later, the Northwest Ordinance proposed that three to five new states be created from the Northwest Territory. Instead of adopting the legal constructs of an existing state, each territory would have an appointed governor and council.
Detailed explanation-5: -July 13, 1787. While the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which was a plan for governing the territory north and west of the Ohio River.