The Northwest Territory was acquired on July 13, 1787. It continued to be identified as the Northwest Territory until March 1, 1803 when it was admitted into the Union as the state of Ohio. The Northwest Ordinance was established in 1787 to run the territory and establish rules for statehood.
Different groups claim rights to settle in the land of the northwest territory because they won the war.
Land Ordinance of 1785
This land was purchased from France in 1803 for $15,000,000.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 outlined the boudaries of the Northwest Territory, but the Appalachian Mountains was not part of the bounday description. The Northwest Territory is made out of the region south of the Great Lakes , north and west of the Ohio River.
The Northwest Territory is the United States included all the land of the United States west of Pennsylvania and northwest of the Ohio River. It covered all of the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the northeastern part of Minnesota.
Thomas Jefferson After the end of the American Revolution, Congress established a system for settling the new territory the United States acquired. The land involved was located west of the Appalachian Mountains and eventually became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and a portion of Minnesota. The Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 served as a framework for settling this Northwest Territory.
The government law calling for surveying of land in the Northwest Territory was the Land Ordinance of 1785.
July 15 1870 is the official transfer date.
Different groups claim rights to settle in the land of the northwest territory because they won the war.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
It divided the Northwest Territory into townships and lots.
To protect their land
Land Ordinance of 1785
In an effort to try and organize the Northwest territory Congress passed two laws; The Northwest Ordinance and The Land Ordinance. These two acts separated the territory into states and helped the government raise money through sale of the land.
the sold their land
Land Ordinance of 1785
It established the process for how the U.S. would expand westward.