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The national government was able to raise money as it sold land in the area.
The Land Ordinance of 1785
Since the Constitution prohibited taxation, the Land Ordinance gave the government the ability to earn money by selling tracts of land in the largely unmapped west. The ordinance served as the government's land grant policy until the passage of the Homestead Act.
Land Ordinance of 1785
The national government claimed ownership of the land west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi River for the national government rather than any of the states. The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided how this land would be distributed. The land was divided into square townships, each 6 miles by 6 miles. Each township was then further divided into 36 one-mile square sections. The Land Ordinance requred that (1) one section in each township be set aside for a school, (2) four sections in each township would be reserved by the national government to provide land bounties to veterans for the American Revolution, and (3) the government would sell the remaining 29 sections at public auction, with a minimum bid of $640 per section.
The national government was able to raise money as it sold land in the area.
The national government was able to raise money as it sold land in the area.
The national government was able to raise money as it sold land in the area.
The Land Ordinance of 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was important because it created the Northwest Territory. President Washington signed the ordinance on August 7, 1789.
Since the Constitution prohibited taxation, the Land Ordinance gave the government the ability to earn money by selling tracts of land in the largely unmapped west. The ordinance served as the government's land grant policy until the passage of the Homestead Act.
The Land Ordinance of 1785
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Articles of Confederation
The national government claimed ownership of the land west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi River for the national government rather than any of the states. The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided how this land would be distributed. The land was divided into square townships, each 6 miles by 6 miles. Each township was then further divided into 36 one-mile square sections. The Land Ordinance requred that (1) one section in each township be set aside for a school, (2) four sections in each township would be reserved by the national government to provide land bounties to veterans for the American Revolution, and (3) the government would sell the remaining 29 sections at public auction, with a minimum bid of $640 per section.
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.
The land ordinance called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots, called townships, in the western land. The northwest ordinance described how this land they established would be governed. (it ended up gaining rights to self-government)