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...

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...

Established in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation through the Northwest Ordinance, it was the nation's first post-colonial organized incorporated territory...

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...

Ordinance of 1787, commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, that created the Northwest Territory Ordinance (disambiguation) Land Reform Ordinance (disambiguation)...

further augmented with the Land Ordinance of 1785, and superseded by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This latter ordinance provided for civil liberties...

enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory in what is now the upper Midwestern United States. The Ordinance specified that...

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...

territory north of the Ohio River, which would subsequently become the Northwest Territory, but initially retained its remaining trans-Appalachian claim...

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...