USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Once sixty thousand people resided in a territory, they could apply for statehood. The people could form a constitutional convention, draft a state constitution, and then submit the document to the United States Congress for approval.

Detailed explanation-2: -Provisions of the Northwest Ordinance presaged several provisions of the Constitution and the First Amendment and announced a prohibition of slavery in the states to be formed out of the territories.

Detailed explanation-3: -On July 13, 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance-an act that established a framework for governing the Northwest Territory, admitting new states, and protecting the civil liberties of settlers. It also banned slavery in the new territories.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first state to be formed from the Northwest Territory was Ohio, the seventeenth state of the United States of America. While the United States government had now established how the Northwest Territory would be governed, American Indians living in the area did not consent to American control of the region.