Megatrends was a very popular book form the 1980's that attempted to make predictions about the future.
Many people considered this as a, "mainstream book."
Christopher Columbus was a Spanish navigator who proposed to sail across the Atlantic to get to India for trade, accidentally discovering the Americas. He did a number of things to the indigenous peoples. He traded with them, he enslaved some, and he also mistook them for East Indians.
Under the ordinance, slavery was forever outlawed from the lands of the Northwest Territory, freedom of religion and other civil liberties were guaranteed, the resident Indians were promised decent treatment, and education was provided for.
