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

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Which ordinance sold government land in the west to encourge settlement?

The Land Ordinance of 1785


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Yes, the Land Ordinance of 1787 required land taxes from the Northwest.


The Land Ordinance of 1787 required land taxes from the Northwest.?

Yes, the Land Ordinance of 1787 required land taxes from the Northwest.


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Some strengths of the AOC were they established congress, the northwest ordinance, and the land ordinance of 1785.


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The Land Ordinance of 1785 was important because it created the Northwest Territory. President Washington signed the ordinance on August 7, 1789.


Land ordinance and northwest ordinance?

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)


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Northwest ordinance


What did the land ordinance accomplish?

township


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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.


What ordinance provided for the gradual development of self government in the Northwest Territories?

The Land Ordinance of 1785


What was the land of ordinance of 1785 created by?

Township


What did the land ordinance of 1785 abd northwest ordinance have in common?

It was used in 1785 to settle more land outside of the thirteen states by using population.