MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
SHAYS REBELLION
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Question
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What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights in the Northwest Ordinance?
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protected freedoms, like religion, trial by jury, and no slavery
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made slavery legal
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made people move to Britain
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made people worship the King
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A bill of rights protecting religious freedom, the right to a writ of habeas corpus, the benefit of trial by jury, and other individual rights; in addition the ordinance encouraged education and forbade slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -This legislation created the Northwest Territory, established a government for the territory, and outlined the process by which it would be divided into new states and how those states would be admitted into the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -It provided a path to statehood and reaffirmed the idea that the new states would enter the Union equally with the other states.
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