The right answer is C it encouraged explorers to find a Northwest Passage to the Pacific.
The ordinance anticipated statehood when any territory’s population reached a population of sixty thousand “free inhabitants" establishing a formal procedure for transforming territories into states. The ordinance also prohibited permanently slavery. 1787 Congress voted a grant of 1.5 million acres for about $1 million in certificates of indebtedness to Revolutionary War veterans. The arrangement had the merit of reducing the national debt and encouraging new settlement and sales of federal land. Despite that, the ordinance also called for a public university.
It was a strategic point in the Tennessee River. The union wanted to gain control of the tributaries that flowed into the Mississippi River. Southern troops were not defending this place. It was a stronghold protecting the North.
Generally speaking, it would be "civil rights" that people gain as part of living under an organized government, although of course this depends greatly on the government in question.
