WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Northwest Ordinance
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Proclamation of 1763
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Treaty of Paris
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Magna Carta
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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: -The Northwest Ordinance (formally the Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North West of the River Ohio) primarily created the Northwest Territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1787, it passed the Northwest Ordinance to establish a process for admitting territories to the Union as states. Each territory was to be governed by Congress until it had 5, 000 free, white males. Then settlers could vote whether to become a permanent state with all the rights of the other states in the Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -When it was passed in New York in 1787, the Northwest Ordinance showed the influence of Jefferson.