USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Just a few months after ratifying the Treaty of Paris and ending the American Revolution, a committee led by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, and assisted by Jeremiah Townley Chase of Maryland and David Howell of Rhode Island, compiled the Ordinance and laid out boundaries for an unspecified number of states.

Detailed explanation-2: -Image courtesy of the Library of Congress As a Member of the Confederation Congress, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia authored the 1784 Northwest Ordinance. In 1787, Jefferson served as a diplomat to the King of France.

Detailed explanation-3: -March 1784 Jefferson drafts a report for reform of coinage that proposes replacing the English system of pounds sterling, shillings, and pence with a fraction or decimal system having an American version of the Spanish dollar as the basic unit.

Detailed explanation-4: -Following the principles outlined by Thomas Jefferson in the Ordinance of 1784, the authors of the Northwest Ordinance (probably Nathan Dane and Rufus King) spelled out a plan that was subsequently used as the country expanded to the Pacific.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 were drafted by Thomas Jefferson. The primary purposes of the ordinances were to create procedures for dividing the land east of the Appalachian Mountains and west of the Mississippi River for settlement.