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    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...
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    The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of...
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    Established in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation through the Northwest Ordinance, it was the nation's first post-colonial organized incorporated territory...
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    people who wanted to enslave free people in 1787 by passing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The law appeared to outlaw enslavement, which would have...
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  • Ordinance of 1787, commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, that created the Northwest Territory Ordinance (disambiguation) Land Reform Ordinance (disambiguation)...
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  • further augmented with the Land Ordinance of 1785, and superseded by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This latter ordinance provided for civil liberties...
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  • enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory in what is now the upper Midwestern United States. The Ordinance specified that...
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  • outline for the process was established by the Land Ordinance of 1784 and the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, both of which predate the U.S. Constitution. The...
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    territory north of the Ohio River, which would subsequently become the Northwest Territory, but initially retained its remaining trans-Appalachian claim...
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  • organization to regulate itself Local ordinance, a law made by a municipality or other local authority Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787, an act of the Congress...
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