The congress decided to pay some of them with land
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Many women in the revolutionary war provided comfort and support to the soldiers. They followed the army to cook and do laundry. Some women took up arms as the men fell.
Because in the revolutionary war, Some on one commented that the North Carolina soldiers must have tar on their heels because they were standing their ground.
No. It was a compromise in the Congress to work out problems between some states as to which side they were on. People could not decide on their own to own slaves. Some people in the South didn't want slavery.
Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785 because there was a need to discern how to divide the land that was acquired during the Revolutionary War. The British that had already settled west of the Ohio River had to move to let the Americans have the land.