Question

How were the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 similar?

Answer 1

Answer:

D)They both encouraged settlement.

Explanation:

The Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, Northwest of the Ohio River known as the Northwest Ordinance or the Freedom Ordinance was a law of the Congress of the United States Confederation. The ordinance was approved unanimously on July 13, 1787. The main effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States of the region south of the Great Lakes north and west of the River Ohio, and east of the Mississippi River. On August 7, 1789, the Congress of the United States affirmed the Ordinance with slight changes established by the Constitution.

Answer 2

Answer:

D)They both encouraged settlement.

Explanation:

The Land Ordinance of 1785 was passed by the US Congress of the Confederation in 1785 aimed to create a system in which settlers could buy titles to farmland in the West.

The Northwest Ordinance was an act passed the Congress of the Confederation of the US in 1787 that aimed to create the Northwest Territory - the first organized territory up until that moment - and to create a system of settlement.