General George McClellan was running against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election as the Democratic nominee.
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The states were to encourage education, but the Northwest Ordinance did not require states to provide public education. Slavery also was outlawed in any of the states created from the Northwest Territory. The Northwest Ordinance paved the way for Ohio to become the seventeenth state of the United States of America.
The labor force at the textile mills consisted of women and sometimes small children. The working conditions were very dangerous because you could be easily injured by one of the machines. Many of the women demanded better working conditions and went on strike.