MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the Articles of Confederation
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the US Constitution
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1787, it passed the Northwest Ordinance to establish a process for admitting territories to the Union as states. Each territory was to be governed by Congress until it had 5, 000 free, white males. Then settlers could vote whether to become a permanent state with all the rights of the other states in the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Image courtesy of the Library of Congress As a Member of the Confederation Congress, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia authored the 1784 Northwest Ordinance.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.