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Northwest Ordinances, 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—the portion of the American frontier that is generally the area known today as the Midwest.
The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
Officially titled "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio," the Northwest Ordinance was adopted on July 13, 1787, by the Confederation Congress, the one-house legislature operating under the Articles of Confederation.
On July 13, 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance—an act that established a framework for governing the Northwest Territory, admitting new states, and protecting the civil liberties of settlers. It also banned slavery in the new territories.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 created a protocol for new states to enter the United States and established the Northwest Territory, the first incorporated territory of the US. What were some long term effects of the Northwest Ordinance?
The Northwest Ordinance established a three-stage process for carving new states out of the area northwest of the Ohio River. It led to the eventual creation of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
After the victory in the Revolutionary War, the Confederation Congress had to determine how to govern lands west of the original thirteen states—particularly those of the so-called Northwest Territory, the land north of the Ohio River.
The Northwest Ordinance (formally the Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North West of the River Ohio) primarily created the Northwest Territory.
Northwest Ordinances, (1784, 1785, 1787)Measures enacted by the U.S. Congress for the division and settlement of the Northwest Territory, the frontier region extending north of the Ohio River to the Great Lakes and west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River.
Definition. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a significant piece of legislation enacted by the Congress of the Confederation that established a framework for governing and admitting new states from the Northwest Territory into the Union.