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How can a territory become a state according to the northwest ordinance of 1787?
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What did NOT apply to the North West Ordinance of 1787?
Which is not a feature of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? 1. It prohibited slavery in the territory. 2. It established guidelines for admitting new states. 3. It encouraged public education. 4. It limited the national governments power.
How did the northwest ordinance?
It provided for the surveying of the Northwest Territory, north and west of the Ohio River as far as the Great Lakes and the Misissippi River. This established that it would eventually become states of the United States. With the ascent of the South (which wanted to avoid agricultural competition), slavery was prohibited in the states formed from the Northwest Territory. This became important with the acquisition, 16 years later, of the lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
What ordinance was passed under the Articles of Confederation that described how territories could become states?
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
What created a process for territories to become states?
A nationalbank provided a system for a territory to be a state because debt helped them get out of debt in order to buy new land.
What are thE stipulations of the northwest ordiance?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, set up the rules of states and territories. In order to become a state, they needed at least 60,000 people living in the state, a state constitution that has to be passed by congress, and a representative for the state. In order to become a territory, they needed 10,000 people living in the territory, along with boundaries, and they can send someone to congress,however they cannot vote until they become a state. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 also denies slavery and gives the people the ability to create 5-9 states, in the Ohio Valley area.
According to the northwest Ordinance of 1787 how could the territory become a state?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 said that territories could become a state once they had reached a population of 60,000 people. The first state created from this ordinance was Ohio, in 1803.
What law was passed that stated how a territory would become a state?
The Northwest ordinance of 1787
The northwest ordinance of 1787 explained the rules for how the territory of Ohio could become what?
A US State.
Under the northwest ordinance of 1787a territory could apply to become a state when it had what?
A population of 60,000, free settlers to become a state.
What long term effect did the Northwest Ordinance have on the settlement of the Great Lakes region?
The primary effect of the ordinance was; creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of United States out of the region south of Great Lakes, north and west of Ohio River, and east of Mississippi River.
What did NOT apply to the North West Ordinance of 1787?
Which is not a feature of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? 1. It prohibited slavery in the territory. 2. It established guidelines for admitting new states. 3. It encouraged public education. 4. It limited the national governments power.
How did the northwest ordinance?
It provided for the surveying of the Northwest Territory, north and west of the Ohio River as far as the Great Lakes and the Misissippi River. This established that it would eventually become states of the United States. With the ascent of the South (which wanted to avoid agricultural competition), slavery was prohibited in the states formed from the Northwest Territory. This became important with the acquisition, 16 years later, of the lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
The northwest ordinance of 1787 provided for what in the territory if the united states?
It offered the new territories an and effective way to become states It offered the new territories an and effective way to become states
What did the Northwest Ordinance do?
The Northwest Ordinance was a act of the Congress of the Confederation that led to the creation of theNorthwest Territory, which was the first organized territory of the United States. This territory stretched from the lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains and south of the Great Lakes and Canada, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana.
When did the Northwest Territory become a province?
it was a territory in 1870
What barred slavery from the lands that would become Ohio Illinois Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin?
Novanet: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Law that established western territories to become states?
Northwest ordinance
