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An Ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purpose of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the ...
Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787; (National Archives and Records Microfilm Publication M332, roll 9); Miscellaneous Papers of the ... {hall remain in full force until altered by the legiflature of the dif— And until the governor and judges {hall adopt laws as herein after mentioned, eižates in the faid territc,1Y ...
On July 13, 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance—an act that established a framework for governing the Northwest Territory, admitting new states, and protecting the civil liberties of settlers. It also banned slavery in the new territories.
Northwest Ordinances, several ordinances enacted by the U.S. Congress for the purpose of establishing orderly and equitable procedures for the settlement and political incorporation of the Northwest Territory—the portion of the American frontier that is generally the area known today as the Midwest.
The Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
APPENDIX: An Ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States North West of the river Ohio. Adoption of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 ended a long and sometimes acrimonious debate over the question of how to organize and govern the western territorie...
The Northwest Ordinance allowed for the creation of states in the newly acquired Northwest Territory and laid the foundation for the future admittance of states to the Union. However, the Ordinance set westward expansion on a violent course as Native Americans defended themselves and their land.
