MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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food
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money
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they couldn’t pay back their debts
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land in the Northwest Territory
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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: -Marietta, the first settlement in the Northwest Territory was founded in 1788. Other early settlers were Revolutionary War soldiers who were given land grants in southeast Ohio.
Detailed explanation-3: -As the Northwest Territory was organized in the late 1700s, the federal government sold large portions of land to private companies and individuals. The purchasers included the Ohio Company of Associates, the Scioto Company, land speculator John Cleves Symmes, and numerous other businesses and people.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did Congress privatize much of the Northwest Territory ? Congress sold land to settlers to raise money.