What is land ordinance 1785?

Answer 1

It was a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian mountains.

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Following the American Revolution a number of states ceded to the federal government their claims to land lying west of the Appalachian Mountains. The cessions eased the worries of landless states, cooled tensions between states with overlapping land claims, and relieved the states of war debts. In turn, the federal government had to determine what to do with the ceded land. The Land Ordinance of 1785 laid the foundation for future American land policy. After the Indian title had been purchased, the ceded lands were to be systematically surveyed, prior to sale or settlement, into townships. Of the thirty-six sections of 640 acres in each township, the sixteenth was reserved "for the maintenance of public schools."
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by Congress on May 20, 1785. Under the Articles of Federation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by taxing of the inhabitants of the United States. Therefore, the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original colonies acquired from the UK at the end of the war.

In addition, the act provided for the political organization of these territories. The earlier called for the land west of the Appelachions north of the Oh. river and east of the Mississippi to be divided into ten separate states. However, it did not define the mechanism by which the land would become states, or how the territories would be governed or settled before they became states. The Ordinance of 1785, along with the N.W. Ord. of 1787, were intended to address these political needs.

Answer 2

The Land Ordinance which called for the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states, was passed April 23, 1784.

Another Land Ordinance, which contributed to the first one, was passe May 20, 1785.

Answer 3

The Land Ordinance of 1785 established the way in which The United States government would expand north and west of the Ohio River. It also effectively made the Ohio River to northern boundary for slavery.

Answer 4

An act that used a grid system to divide up the western frontier. It is the reason that the states look the way are they do now.

Answer 5

may 20,1785