The Northwest Ordinance was the most important of the three different acts. It was important because it enabled the government of the Northwest Territory to become a part of the union.
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy; Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.
A strong national government would threaten individual liberty.
They wanted to gain knowledge