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	Ordinance of 1787 - Encyclopedia.com
		Ordinance of 1787 adopted by the Congress of Confederation for the government of the Western territories ceded to the United States by the states.
		It was based on the ordinance of 1784, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, which provided for dividing the region into numerous territories.
		The ordinance also provided that no one born in the Northwest Territory should be a slave, that no law should ever be passed there that would impair the obligation of contract, that the fundamental rights and religious freedom be observed, and that education be promoted.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Ordinanc.html (1190 words)

	The Avalon Project : Northwest Ordinance; July 13, 1787
		An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio.
		The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line, drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami, to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
		Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the resolutions of the 23rd of April, 1784, relative to the subject of this ordinance, be, and the same are hereby repealed and declared null and void.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/nworder.htm (845 words)

	Indiana History Documents - The Northwest Ordinance
		An Ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States North West of the river Ohio.
		Be it Ordained by the Authority aforesaid, that the Resolutions of the 23d of April 1784 relative to the subject of this ordinance be, and the same are hereby repealed and declared null and void.
		The list includes three parts: (1) events preceding 1787, (2) events of 1787 (when the Northwest Ordinance was passed) until 1791, and (3) events from 1800 to 1858.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/resources/docnword.html (924 words)

	Northwest Ordinance
		The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Land Ordinance of 1785 were designed to establish some order among western settlers.
		The Land Ordinance prescribed the division of the land into six-mile-square townships.
		But these offspring of the Land Ordinance of 1785 had played an important role in early settlement, and continued in many cases as the origin of modern roads.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/908.html (460 words)

	Historical Documents - Northwest Ordinance - July 13, 1787
		The Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
		Following the principles outlined by Thomas Jefferson in the Ordinance of 1784, the authors of the Northwest Ordinance (probably Nathan Dane and Rufus King) spelled out a plan that was subsequently used as the country expanded to the Pacific.
		The Northwest Territory, officially called the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was established by the Continental Congress on July 13, 1787, by the Northwest Ordinance.
	www.historicaldocuments.com /NorthwestOrdinance.htm (1701 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Northwest Ordinance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Northwest Ordinance, officially known as the Ordinance of 1787, was derived from a proposal by Thomas Jefferson concerning the formation of states from the territory acquired as a result of the Revolutionary War.
		The Northwest Ordinance (officially the Ordinance of 1787) was enacted by the Congress of the Confederation of the States on July 13, 1787.
		The Northwest Ordinance, officially titled "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio," was adopted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Northwest-Ordinance (3808 words)

	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 also known as the Freedom Ordinance) was an act of the Continental Congress of the United States passed on July 13, 1787 under the Articles of Confederation.
		The passage of the ordinance forced the relinquishing of all such claims by the states over the territory, which was to be administered directly by Congress, with the intent of eventual admission of newly-created states from the territory.
		The Northwest Ordinance, along with the Land Ordinance of 1785, laid the legal and cultural groundwork for midwestern (and subsequently, western) development.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Northwest Territory (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Northwest Ordinance, passed by the Continental Congress on July 13, 1787, provided for the administration of the territories and set rules for admission as a state.
		The square surveys of the Northwest Territory would become a hallmark of the Midwest, as sections, townships, counties (and states) were laid out scientifically, and land was sold quickly and efficiently (although not without some speculative aberrations).
		The Mace reflects the new Northwest Territories and is the symbol of the authority of the Legislature and its Speaker.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Northwest-Territory (3848 words)

	Search Results for "The Northwest Ordinance"
		Northwest Ordinance A law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Middle West....
		Northwest Ordinance Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever...
		The Ordinance of 1787, adopted by the Congress of the Confederation of the United States to create the Northwest Territory, furnished...
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	Ordinance of 1787: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		...the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 were events worthy of historical...on "Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: A Study in Ambiguity," and...historiography of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and its relationship to regional...
		The language of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which implicitly described religion and education as an inseparable unit, suggests that the secular theory of education...
		ORDINANCE OF 1787 adopted by the Congress of Confederation for the government...and Manasseh Cutler, were influential in the drafting of the ordinance, which was passed July 13, 1787.
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	AllRefer.com - Ordinance of 1787 (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Ordinance of 1787, adopted by the Congress of Confederation for the government of the Western territories ceded to the United States by the states.
		It was based on the ordinance of 1784, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, which provided for dividing the region into numerous territories.
		The ordinance also provided that no one born in the Northwest Territory should be a slave, that no law should ever be passed there that would impair the obligation of contract, that the fundamental rights and religious freedom be observed, and that education be promoted.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Ordinanc.html (441 words)

	ordinance of 1787 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Speech of Charles W. Upham, of Salem, in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, on the compromises of the Constitution: : with an appendix, containing the Ordinance of 1787.
		The Constitutions of Ohio: Amendments, and Proposed Amendments inc;udiong the Ordinance of 1787, the Act of Congress dividing the Northwest Territory, etc., etc.
		Piqua, Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration Commemorating the Ordinance of 1787 and the Trek to the Northwest Territory: Spetember 22, 23, 24, 25 1938
	www.hallamericanhistory.com /top/sites/10/1/ordinance_of_1787.html (523 words)

	info: Northwest_Ordinance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 Freedom Ordinance) was an act of the Continental Congress of the United States unanimously passed on July 13, 1787 under the Articles of Confederation.
		The Northwest Ordinance (1787)The Northwest Ordinance (1787) Because the Articles of Confederation, adopted by the states in 1781 as the country's first constitution, have often been considered a failure, it is all too easy to...
		Northwest OrdinanceThe Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Land Ordinance of 1785 were designed to establish some order among western settlers.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Northwest_Ordinance.html (1687 words)

	Northwest Ordinance: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		The Northwest Ordinance, officially titled "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio," was adopted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787.
		Also known as the the Ordinance of 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a government for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union, and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen states.
		Instead, it was referred to a new committee that issued a new draft of the ordinance on July 11, which passed in its final form as the Northwest Ordinance on July 13, 1787.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/northwest.html (903 words)

	Unit 1: From Revolution to Constitution
		The Northwest Territory was the area of the American frontier north of the Ohio River, south of the Great Lakes, east of the Mississippi, and west of Pennsylvania (present-day Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan).
		The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established a framework for government in these lands and outlined the necessary steps for parts of the territory to be admitted as states to the Union.
		The ordinance of 1787 declared that the Northwest Territory as a whole must eventually include a minimum of three and a maximum of five states.
	www.npg.si.edu /edu/brush/guide/unit1/king.html (868 words)

	Northwest Ordinance of 1787 - USFS History - Forest History Society
		The second early document relating to federal control of lands is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
		This ordinance required each new state admitted to the Union to respect the right of the federal government to dispose of public lands (i.e.
		In effect, the ordinance made it a condition for admission that new states would give all unclaimed lands to the federal government.
	www.foresthistory.org /Research/usfscoll/policy/States'_Rights/NW_ordinance_1787.html (108 words)

	Timeline of Events, Northwest Territory
		Monroe's committee on government in the Northwest Territory was reorganized; William Johnson of Connecticut became chairman, and Nathan Dane of Massachusetts joined the committee.
		Dane made important contributions to the Ordinance of 1787 and was the compiler of the final draft of the ordinance.
		While the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which was a plan for governing the territory north and west of the Ohio River.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/nwtimeline.html (1354 words)

	Land Ordinance
		The AOC passed the Land Ordinance pf 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
		The Northwest Ordinance of 1785 and of 1787 said that the land of the Old Northwest was to be given to the federal government and then was to be surveyed and...
		The Northwest Ordinance was an attempt to turn the land in the Ohio Valley, into usable states and turn away from the over extended claims that other states...
	www.megaessays.com /essay_search/Land_Ordinance.html (717 words)

	Northwest Ordinance - AskTheBrain.com
		A critical step in this process was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, enacted by Congress to establish the initial government of the territory that eventually became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
		Provisions were made in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, in the State Constitution of 1802, and subsequent Acts of the State Legislature regarding the importance of education, and when the first settlers arrived with their children, they seemed to embrace those tenets wholeheartedly.
		With the passage of The Ordinance of 1787, in July of that year, events for the settlement of the Northwest Territory moved rapidly.
	www.askthebrain.com /northwest_ordinance-.html (311 words)

	The Northwest Territory - Illinois Trails History and Genealogy
		Congress approved the Territorial Ordinance of 1784, written by Thomas Jefferson, to serve as a plan for temporary government of the western territories.
		While the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which was a plan for governing the territory north and west of the Ohio River.
		This was the first permanent settlement of the Northwest territory after it was organized under the Ordinance of 1787.
	www.iltrails.org /northwest_territory.html (523 words)

	Constitution Day: Reference Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ordinance became the basis for the formation of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and remained in effect until Wisconsin became part of the Union in 1848 (Finkelman 1996, 34).
		Just prior to adoption of the Northwest Ordinance, a number of members of men, some of whom were members of both bodies, had carried news back and forth from the Convention to the Congress.
		Given the ordinance's timing in relation to the adoption of the three-fifths clause, there is continuing speculation as to whether the events may have been related (see Lynd 1966; Potts 1986).
	www.constitution.abc-clio.com /ReferenceDisplay.aspx?entryid=1016830 (1193 words)

	Digital History
		Thomas Jefferson in 1784 proposed that the Northwest Territories be divided into ten units and that any one of them could become a state as soon as its population equalled that of the smallest existing state.
		In 1787, Congress adopted the Northwest Ordinance, which provided a model for the organization of future territories.
		Even though the prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Ordinance seems clear, it must be emphasized that this provision did not affect slaves already living in the territory and did not prevent some slaveholders from bringing slaves into Indiana and Illinois territories.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=301 (648 words)

	Northwest Ordinance
		Arthur St. Clair's 1787 administration passed the Northwest Ordinance which had lingered in Congress since 1784 and is described by Daniel Webster:
		This ordinance was an exceptional piece of legislation because Article 5 permitted the people North and West of the Ohio River to settle their land, form their own territorial government, and take their place as a full fledge state equal to the original 13.
		The Northwest Ordinance's Article 5 became the principal that enabled the United States rapid westward expansion which ended with the inclusion of Alaska and Hawaii as our 49th and 50th states.
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	The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom - Religious Freedom Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Almost lost in the observance of the Constitutional Bicentennial is recollection of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which merits notice on its anniversary, July 13.
		The same men of 1787 who were so farsighted concerning "free exercise" were men of their time in respect to "establishment of religion," which the First Amendment addressed.
		Those who think the ordinance was a charter for everything from school prayer amendments to pro-Judeo-Christian riders on education bills to the haunting and hounding of "secular-humanist" textbook writers might do well to follow the career of this mild form of establishment in Ohio.
	religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu /sacred/marty.html (1060 words)

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