The Northwest Ordinance was a piece of legislation created in 1787 that established how new states should be created, which were the requirements for a territory to become a state and who could govern those new territories.
Under the Ordinance, Judges and Governors were appointed by the Congress and they would rule a territory until it contained 5 thousand free male habitants of voting age, after that they would elect a territorial legislature. When the population reached 60 thousand they would submit a Constitution and then the State would be ready to join the Union.
Answer : He had been a representative in the house of burgesses prior to the American Revolution. He wrote the Declaration of Independence. During the war he served as a state representative and governor of Virginia. He was an ambassador to France.
It was the Department of Energy that Jimmy Carter established. This was mostly due to the fact that he was one of the first presidents concerned with energy conservation in the US. <span />
