That would be the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
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The correct answer is <em>They held free elections. </em>
The Cold War took place after World War II and lasted until the 1990's. It was a state of political, ideological and cultural tension between the Soviet Union and it's satellite states and the United States with it's allied nations in Europe.
One of the main factors of the Cold War was that while the Soviet Union fought to spread communism, the United States and it's aligned nations wanted to contain it, and favored the democratic system and held free elections.
trade came to a halt
workers were in great shortage
and possibly demanding higher wages. Depends on the overall economy of the certain area of the pandemic