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The Land Ordinance of 1787 was called the Northwest Ordinance. It was an act of the Congress of the Confederation. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the US out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north & west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. It established the precedent by which the US would expand westward across North America by the admission of new states rather than by the expansion of existing states. Also, slavery was banned in this new territory, which had the effect of making the Ohio River the boundary between free and slave territories in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi.
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Why was the northwest ordinanceof 1787 enacted?
The events that led to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was that more land was being opened up to settle. They wanted equal footing with the original 13 colonies.
What law allowed settlers to buy land in the northwest territory?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Northwest ordiance of 1787?
It established the process for how the U.S. would expand westward.
24 The ordinance of 1785 and 1787 were notable accomplishments because?
initiated a territorial policy that provided for the orderly creation of new states
What act provided for the gradual development of selfgovernment in the northwest territory?
The Land Ordinance of 1785
