MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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It was deforested and the settlers build Wal Marts and Targets
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They opened a new covered wagon shop on the Ohio River for settlers to buy the new EZ456 model, now with a built-in outhouse
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They sold each acre to freed slaves from the south
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They sold the land to settlers for a profit
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unfortunately for the Ohio Company investors, Great Britain implemented the Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited its colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. This legislation essentially ended the Ohio Company, as the company could not legally sell any of its land.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans.
Detailed explanation-3: -To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the middle of the 1700s, British fur traders had crossed the Appalachian Mountains into the Ohio River Valley into land that was claimed by both Great Britain and France. The French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had laid claim to a huge land area called New France.