USA HISTORY

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: -The Land Ordinance of 1785 was a significant piece of legislation in the Early Republic Era of the United States. It was important because it was an effort by the Confederation Congress to establish more settlements and spread United States influence throughout the Americas.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Ordinance of 1785 provided for the scientific surveying of the territory’s lands and for a systematic subdivision of them. Land was to be subdivided according to a rectangular grid system. The basic unit of land grant was the township, which was a square area measuring six miles on each side.