The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the Continental Congress in the United States on May 20, 1785. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United States. Therefore, the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired at the 1783 (Treaty of Paris) after the end of the Revolutionary War.
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False: Land Ordinance of 1785 described how the western territories was to be governed.
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The result of the Land Ordinance of 1878 was the expansion of the US up to the Mississippi River. This would lead to colonization and state creations, making another place for American Settlers to move to.
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