This was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which established the first territory outside the 13 colonies, and defined how new states would join the US.
The formal title of the law is
"An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio"
The claim of 7 of the 13 states to immense tracts of western lands
the disposition of western lands.
state claims to western territories
False
A policy to admit western territories as equal states.
The claim of 7 of the 13 states to immense tracts of western lands
Shay's rebellion
the disposition of western lands.
state claims to western territories
They wrestled with the question, Who should get western lands?
Provided a system for governing the Western Territories that aided the nation's expansion.
False
yes
A policy to admit western territories as equal states.
It can raise an army but cant' pay for them It can make Treaties but can't enforce The government controls all Western lands
Under the Articles of Confederation the American colonists fought and defeated Great Britain and gained independence. By the end of the "Confederation era," Congers had created a bureaucracy to administer the day-to-day affairs of the government. The issue over the western lands was solved under the Articles. The large states holding vast amounts of western land ceded the land to the government under the Articles so that all the states could share in the wealth of those lands. The Northwest Ordinances were passed that provided for the creation of equal, self governing states in the Northwest Territories and the newly created states would have the same rights and privileges as the original 13 states. Congress also provided for a survey of the western lands to prepare the land for sale to all. Under the Articles, the states were held together until a new government under the Constitution was created. The new nation began to emerge as one respecting the ideas that had caused the Revolutionary War in the first place.
The name of the first US government was "The United States of America", the same as it is today, even though the first government was organized under the Articles of Confederation. Article 1 of the Articles of Confederation says: "The Stile [sic] of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America."The first US government after the Revolutionary War was actually founded during the war. It passed the North West ordinance, solving the problem of establishing the borders between the states and what to do about the lands in the western parts of the United States.It established the government survey that originated a grid pattern of dividing farmland used in most of the nation apart from the original 13 states.