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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Which act allowed settlers to purchase land on credit in the western region of the US?

The northwest oridance


What did the land ordinants of 1785 do?

It divided the Northwest Territory into townships and lots.


Northwest ordiance of 1787?

It established the process for how the U.S. would expand westward.


These articles from the northwest ordinance function as a part of a for settlers in the northwest?

Land System.


What is a government law that said the new land in the northwest territory should be surveyed?

The government law calling for surveying of land in the Northwest Territory was the Land Ordinance of 1785.


Why did different groups claim rights to land in the northwest territory?

Different groups claim rights to settle in the land of the northwest territory because they won the war.


How did the northeast ordinance of 1787 affect the practice of slavery in the northwest territory?

The Northeast Ordinance of 1787 allowed for the creation of the Northwest Territory. Slavery in the Northwest Territory was forbidden, and a new border line used Ohio to divide between free and slave states. This separation of land began a national competition between the North and the South.


Why did the native Americans and setltlers have conflict in the northwest territory?

because the american settlers took the native americans land and the native americans where defending there home which they have lived at for over 30,000 years


Why did Native American forces in the Northwest Territory?

To protect their land


The what described how the northwest territory was to be governed?

Land Ordinance of 1785


Land act of 1800?

Allowed settlers to purchase land on credit.


Where was the Northwest Territories first settlers from?

As the Northwest Territories originally were the Rupert's land of the Hudson's Bay company, the early settlers were British traders, with the aborigial people already living in the area. Soon provinces were cut out of the land, and we have what is left of Northwest Territories.