It created the authority to create federal reserve notes.
The main way in which the Northwest Ordinance increases sectionalism in the United States was that it offered lots of new territory in which people had to determine where to be free or slave states.
Early Trade. The first Europeans to purchase furs from Indians wereFrench and English fishermen who, during the 1500s, fished off the coast of northeastern Canada and occasionally traded with the Indians. In exchange, the Indians received European-manufactured goods such as guns, metal cooking utensils, and cloth.