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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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True or false The land ordinance of 1785 described how the northwest territory was to be governed?
False: Land Ordinance of 1785 described how the western territories was to be governed.
One of the most far-reaching effects of the Land Ordinance of 1785 was that?
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.
Land under the Land Ordinance of 1785 cost?
one dollar an acre
What divided western lands into townships?
the land ordinace
The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 were the two major accomplishments under what government?
The Articles of Confederation
