The Land Ordinance of 1785 was chosen by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It initiated up to a regulated method whereby immigrants could acquire right to farmland in the unactualized west. The 1785 law set the grounds of the land policy until the way of the Homestead Act in 1862. It was necessary because it built the pattern by which new states could become a portion of the union.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. ... The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act in 1862.
War of 1812, (June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent
