MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
SHAYS REBELLION
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Question
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Set up a process for surveying and selling lands North of the Ohio River
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Set up a bill of rights
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set up a process for Native Americans to share land with others
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Land Ordinance of 1785 was passed by the U.S. Congress under the Articles of Confederation. It laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold. The method of creating townships and sections within townships was used for all U.S. land after 1785.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Northwest Ordinance chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Land Ordinance of 1785 dealt with these issues. As the states and Native Americans relinquished lands, government surveyors were to divide the territory into individual townships. Each township was to be square.