1. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787

2. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
CONFEDERATION: a group of loosely joined, but sovereign states.

3. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
Problem: Many states made claims to the western lands (Northwest Territory).
Boundaries of the Northwest Territory: Great Lakes (north), Pennsylvania (east), Ohio River (south), Mississippi River (west)

4. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
Solution to the Problem: All states agreed to cede (give) their claims to Congress, so Congress can sell the land for the good of the country (confederation).
NATIONAL DOMAIN – Public land

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LAND ORDINANCE of 1785: Congress’s plan to sell the land of the Northwest Territory.
Rectangular Survey System – carefully surveyed the land into squares to be sold.

6. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
Township – the largest division of land. It is thirty-six square miles.
Township
6 MILES

7. Townships

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Section – 36 sections in a township. It is one square mile or 640 acres.
Section

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Acre – the smallest division of land. It sold for $1 per acre.
The average size farm was 40 acre. So, it sold for $40.
OHIO STATE
BUCKEYES 10 20 30 40 50 40 30 20 10
ACRE

10. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
Education – the sale from one section of each township goes to start a school for that township.
How much went for education?
Answer: $640

11. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787 this document establishes…
the principles and procedures for the orderly expansion of the United States.

12. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787
Statehood:
When the population reaches 5,000 adult males the area can:
elect it’s own legislature.
send non-voting members to Congress.

13. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787
When the population reaches 60,000 adult males the area can:
can write a state constitution and apply for statehood.
If Congress approves the state Constitution that area will become a state.

14. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787
Five states:
Minnesota
Ohio (1803)
Indiana (1816)
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois (1818)
Michigan (1837)
Illinois
Wisconsin (1848)
Ohio
Indiana

15. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787
Rights Guaranteed:
Trial by jury
Public education
Freedom of religion
Prohibition of slavery