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  2. Northwest Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  4. Arthur St. Clair - Wikipedia

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    Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which created the Northwest Territory, St. Clair was appointed governor of what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. He named Cincinnati, Ohio, to honor his membership in the Society of the Cincinnati, [7] and it was there that he decided to relocate his home.

  5. Journals of the Continental Congress - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Land Ordinance of 1784 / of 1785; Northwest Ordinance of 1787 ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  6. Ohio Company of Associates - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Company's purchase was enabled first by the passage on July 13, 1787, of the "Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio," commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, and second, by the Act of October 23, 1787, which authorized Congress to make contracts of public lands for not less ...

  7. Organic act - Wikipedia

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    Northwest Territory of the United States, 1787 This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas in center (white).. In United States law, an organic act is an act of the United States Congress that establishes an administrative agency or local government, [1] for example, the laws that established territory of the United States and specified how ...

  8. Land Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Land Ordinance of 1787, commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, that created the Northwest Territory; See ...

  9. Constitution of Indiana - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... population requirement of 60,000 as outlined in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, ... concepts as well as specific text. ...