MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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establish a structure for adding states to the U.S.
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prevent Native Americans from legitimately owning land
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abolish old British and French forts still remaining in the area
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create a means for transporting setters to western settlements
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Provisions of the Northwest Ordinance presaged several provisions of the Constitution and the First Amendment and announced a prohibition of slavery in the states to be formed out of the territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -The primary purpose of the ordinance was to create the Northwest Territory as the first organized region of the fledging United States, out of the areas close to the Great Lakes, and to the north and west of the Ohio river. This legislation also intended to ban slavery in the entire Northwest Territory.