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Established the thirty-first parallel as the border between the United States and Spanish West Florida.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (or the Northwest Ordinance, as it is now referred) helped the US grow by creating the first organized territory of the United States, the Northwest Territory. This territory contained land from the Great Lakes to west of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. The Ordinance also abolished slavery in the new territory, which helped lead the way for further growth as a slave-free nation. The ordinance also created Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
A government based on "federalism," or the sharing of power between the national, and state (and local) governments.
The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance or The Ordinance of 1787) set the mandate for the creation of new states from the region, once a population of 60,000 had been achieved within a particular territory.The Enabling Act of 1802 established the precedent and procedures for creation of future states in the western territories. The act requires territories to elect a delegate for each 1,200 people to attend a constitutional convention. The enabling act requires the prospective state to adopt a form of government and constitution that are in compliance with the U.S. Constitution.