The northwest ordinance of 1787

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•CONFEDERATION: a group of
loosely joined, but sovereign states.

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•Problem: Many states made claims to the
western lands (Northwest Territory).
Boundaries of the Northwest Territory:
Great Lakes (north), Pennsylvania (east),
Ohio River (south), Mississippi River
(west)

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•Solution to the Problem: All states agreed to
cede (give) their claims to Congress, so
Congress can sell the land for the good of
the country (confederation).
NATIONAL DOMAIN – Public land

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•LAND ORDINANCE
of 1785: Congress’s
plan to sell the land
of the Northwest
Territory.
•Rectangular Survey
System – carefully
surveyed the land
into squares to be
sold.

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•Township – the largest division of land.
It is thirty-six square miles.

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•Section – 36 sections in a township. It is
one square mile or 640 acres.

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•Acre – the smallest division of land. It
sold for $1 per acre.
The average size farm was 40 acre. So, it
sold for $40.

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•Education – the sale from one section of each
township goes to start a school for that
township.
How much went for education?
Answer: $640

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document establishes…document establishes…
the principles and procedures for the
orderly expansion of the United States.

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•Statehood:
•When the population reaches 5,000 adult
males the area can:
–elect it’s own legislature.
–send non-voting members to
Congress.

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•When the population reaches 60,000
adult males the area can:
a.can write a state constitution and
apply for statehood.
b.If Congress approves the state
Constitution that area will become a
state.

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Five states:
Indiana (1816)
Ohio (1803)
Illinois (1818)
Michigan (1837)
Wisconsin (1848)

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Rights Guaranteed:
2.Trial by jury
3.Public education
4.Freedom of religion
5.Prohibition of slavery