The Northwest Ordinance was the legislation that officially established the Northwest Territory.
Illinois was a part of the Northwest Territory until 1809. It was on February 3, 1809 that it was established as the Illinois Territory by the10th United States Congress.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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.
It established the process for how the U.S. would expand westward.
By the time the Northwest Territory was established, the Sioux had left that region and gone west. It did not affect them. The old Northwest Territory ended at the Mississippi River. While the Sioux originated in that area they left years earlier when horses became available.
The Canadian territory of Nunavut is Canada's most recent addition. It was established on April 01 1999 as the homeland of the Inuit peoples. This territory used to be part of Canada's Northwest Territory. Nunavut has land borders with the Northwest Territories on several islands as well as the mainland.
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The following are features of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 governed the territory of what are now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, as in all territory ordinances, was written in line with what was at that time federal law. It allowed indentured servitude, except it prohibited slavery in the territory. It established guidelines for admitting new states, and it encouraged public education. Many of these ordinances were developed into the constitution when the territory became a state .
Yukon Territory and Northwest Territory. - Nunavut is a north east Territory.
The Centinel of the Northwest Territory was created in 1793.
The Northwest Ordinances were the framework for the settlement and government of the Northwest Territory.