Northwest Ordinance
Northwest Ordinance (1787) | National Archives
The Northwest Ordinance chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the ...
Northwest Ordinance - Wikipedia
Northwest Ordinance ... The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and ...
Northwest Ordinances | Definition, Summary, & Significance
Northwest Ordinances, several ordinances enacted by the U.S. Congress for the purpose of establishing orderly and equitable procedures for ...
Northwest Ordinance | George Washington's Mount Vernon
An interpretation of the social-constitutional history of the American Revolution 1774-1781. Madison, Milwaukee, and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, ...
The Northwest Ordinance (1787) - The National Constitution Center
On July 13, 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance—an act that established a framework for governing the Northwest Territory, admitting new states, and ...
Northwest Ordinance: Primary Documents in American History
Northwest Ordinance: Primary Documents in American History. Adopted on July 13, 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a government for the ...
IHB: Northwest Ordinance of 1787 - IN.gov
The Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which was a plan for governing the territory north and west of the Ohio River.
The Northwest Ordinance was passed by Congress on July 13,. 1787, to establish a government in the Northwest Territory and to provide security there for “the ...
An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States ...
An ORDINANCE for the GOVERNMENT of the TERRITORY of the UNITED STATES, North-West of the RIVER OHIO. BE IT ORDAINED by the United States in Congress assembled, ...
Northwest Ordinance | Teaching American History
The Ordinance protected religious freedom and other individual rights, and emphasized the importance of education. The territorial government was prohibited ...
The Northwest Ordinance - Jack Miller Center
The Northwest Territory consisted of the territory that became the modern states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787, passed July 13, 1787 | U.S. Capitol
The ordinance, which predated the Constitution, framed the plan for governing the territories “north and west of the river Ohio” and their admission to the ...
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 - Minnesota Secretary Of State
The ordinance provided for the formation out of the Northwest Territory of not less than three nor more than five states. The states were to be admitted to the ...
Proclamation 5676 -- Northwest Ordinance Bicentennial Day, 1987
On July 13, we celebrate the Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance, considered one of the foundation documents of our Nation.
Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance | July 13, 1787 | HISTORY
When 60,000 settlers resided in a territory, they could draft a constitution and petition for full statehood. The ordinance provided for civil ...
1789: The Northwest Ordinance guarantees tribal land rights
The Northwest Ordinance also provided a method for admitting new states to the Union and spelled out a plan that would allow the U.S. to expand its boundaries ...
The Northwest Ordinance, 13 July 1787
The Northwest Ordinance is one of the great American Founding documents. Often it is considered as the single most important accomplishment ...
Indiana from NW Ordinance to Statehood - IN.gov
Indiana from 1787 (Passage of Northwest Ordinance) to 1816 (Indiana Statehood) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was enacted on July 13, 1787.
The Northwest Ordinance - YouTube
In 1787, Congress adopts a plan called The Northwest Ordinance which calls for new states to be developed in the Ohio region.
The Northwest Ordinance: Historically Significant, Still Relevant
The Northwest Ordinance is perhaps best known for its prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Territory.
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance, enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. It created the Northwest Territory, the new nation's first organized incorporated territory, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British North America and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south.
Land Ordinance of 1784
The Ordinance of 1784 called for the land in the recently created United States which was located west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states.