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.
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Newspapers were a huge thing back then and with the addition of photographs i'm sure that people at home were able to see what the battlefields looked like.
The major downfall of the Articles of Confederation<span>was simply </span>weakness<span>. The federal government, under the </span>Articles<span>, was too weak to enforce their laws and therefore had no power. The Continental Congress had borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War and could not repay their debts.</span>
Europeans call the French and Indian War the Seven Years War