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It established a procedure for surveying and selling the western lands north of the Ohio river.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 set forth how the government of the United States would measure, divide and distribute the land it had acquired from Great Britain north and west of the Ohio River at the end of the American Revolution.
To subdivide and sell land in the Northwest Territory.
it established a procedure for surveying and selling the western lands north of the Ohio river
When passed, the Land Ordinance of 1785 applied to the "Northwest Territory" ceded mostly by Virginia to the United States, which included all land west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River extending west to the Mississippi River. This included all or parts of the present-day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The 1785 ordinance provided for the survey of these public lands and their division into townships, sections, etc for sale by the government. This came to be known as the Public Land Survey System, or PLSS. As the country expanded, the provisions of the land ordinance were expanded as well. The only exception was Texas, which had been an independent republic before entry into the union. So, with the exception of the original 13 states, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas, the entire United States was affected by the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the PLSS.
Congress ensured that public schools would be set up in the lands north of the Ohio River with the Land Ordinance of 1785. This land ordinance established how townships in the western frontier would be surveyed and planned.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 set forth how the government would measure, divide and distribute the land it had acquired. It laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act in 1862.
Congress was trying to gain control of Ohio country.
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.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Land Ordinance of 1785 which divided the Northwest Territories into 10 states. Ohio was the first of these states, soon followed by Indiana and Illinois.
it forbade slavery above the Ohio River it also handled the problem of how a nation should deal with its colonies. at first the old northwest would be subordinate to the national government, but when it could bolster a large enough population (around 60,000 people or so) it could qualify to become a new state with the same rights as the other states.
When passed, the Land Ordinance of 1785 applied to the "Northwest Territory" ceded mostly by Virginia to the United States, which included all land west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River extending west to the Mississippi River. This included all or parts of the present-day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The 1785 ordinance provided for the survey of these public lands and their division into townships, sections, etc for sale by the government. This came to be known as the Public Land Survey System, or PLSS. As the country expanded, the provisions of the land ordinance were expanded as well. The only exception was Texas, which had been an independent republic before entry into the union. So, with the exception of the original 13 states, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas, the entire United States was affected by the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the PLSS.