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The northwest ordinance included a Bill of Rights for the settlers, guaranteeing freedom of religion and trial by jury. It had an enormous effect on American expansion and the development and it opend the way for settlement of the Northwest Territory in a stable and orderly manner.

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The primary purpose and effect of the Northwest Ordinance was to create the Northwest Territory which was to be the first organized territory for the United States. The region contained lands south of the Great Lakes, lands to the North and West of the Ohio River and everything east of the Mississippi River.

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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 offered a solution by creating a model for managed expansion. The legislation provided for the organization of the Northwest Territory into new states by creating a defined set of conditions that assured the creation of civilian government in the newly settled regions and prepared the new territories for statehood.

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it provided a process for admission of new states to the union

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The Northwest Ordinance was the legislation that officially established the Northwest Territory.

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It provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.

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