Borders were established by Congress.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 decided how the United States would add new territory and eventually new states to the Union.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 decided how the United States would add new territory and eventually new states to the Union.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 decided how the United States would add new territory and eventually new states to the Union.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 decided how the United States would add new territory and eventually new states to the Union.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 decided how the United States would add new territory and eventually new states to the Union.
provided a process for admission of new states into the union
They would be divided into military districts headed by union generals
The "house" is the Union, the country, used metaphorically as in a family or clan.
It's me Rakesh Mandava
The Divided States of America?The term "union" implies "joined together', If the south (the Confederate States) had successfully seceded from the union, (and become a separate nation within the US), the United States would not be indivisible. What makes us strong is what our name implies, UNITY. The only way to maintain the union was for all the states to remain united. Otherwise, we would now be living in the "Divided States" with the core of the country owning slaves. A house divided cannot stand (as at its middle it is weak) and niether can The United States of America.One of Lincoln's arguments is that the United States Constitution contains no provision for the secession of a state from the union that the Constitution establishes. However, what the People have established (The Constitution) the People can change. One wonders if the Confederate States could have succeeded if they had tried for a Constitutional amendment establishing a procedure for secession.
(1) They would have to approve new state constitutions that gave the vote to all adult men. (2) They would have to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
Then there would be 54 states in the union.