To gain support for the revolutionaries. The story was exaggerated, but the American people bought it. It was used as a recruitment/propaganda campaign to turn as many people against the British occupation as possible.
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several ordinances enacted by the U.S. Congress for the purpose of establishing orderly and equitable procedures for the settlement and political incorporation of the Northwest Territory that part of the American frontier lying west of Pennsylvania, north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes; this is generally the area known today as the American Midwest
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In 1783, the United States had a much more hands-off approach to foreign policy. The country was too young, and was not very developed yet, and this meant that the U.S. government was primarily interested in keeping the country internally stable.
By 1828, the United States had become a stronger and wealthier country, and was becoming more active in foreign policy matters. To start, in 1812 it launched a war against Britain for the control of Canada, which it lost, and by 1828, the U.S. had the goal of taking much of the Northern territories of Mexico.
