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Goryan [66]
3 years ago
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Why was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 enacted?

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Dmitry [639]3 years ago
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Answer is.... to help new States join the Union!! (Gradpoint)

Rudiy273 years ago
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was an act enacted by the Confederation's Congress <u>to provide for the settlement and political incorporation of the territory of the North-West of the River Ohio (that the U.S. acquired after the American Revolutionary War) in a peaceful and orderly way.</u>

The ordinance established a division of the Northwest Territory into not less than three and nor more than five States, and that each state was to be governed by a governor, secretary, and three judges appointed by Congress until it attained a population of 5,000 adult free males, at which time it would become a territory and could form its own representative legislature.

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