USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Northwest Territory included all the then-owned land of the United States west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and northwest of the Ohio River. It incorporated most of the former Ohio Country except a portion in western Pennsylvania, and eastern Illinois Country.

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: -The Northwest Territory covered a massive tract of land that would eventually become the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and a section of Minnesota.

Detailed explanation-4: -February 19, 1803. Ohio became the first state formed from the Northwest Territory. Ohio entered the Federal Union as the seventeenth state.