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Thomas Jefferson After the end of the American Revolution, Congress established a system for settling the new territory the United States acquired. The land involved was located west of the Appalachian Mountains and eventually became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and a portion of Minnesota. The Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 served as a framework for settling this Northwest Territory.
The Northeast Ordinance of 1787 allowed for the creation of the Northwest Territory. Slavery in the Northwest Territory was forbidden, and a new border line used Ohio to divide between free and slave states. This separation of land began a national competition between the North and the South.
The Northwest Ordinance was a act of the Congress of the Confederation that led to the creation of theNorthwest Territory, which was the first organized territory of the United States. This territory stretched from the lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains and south of the Great Lakes and Canada, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana.
The Land Ordinance of 1785.
False: Land Ordinance of 1785 described how the western territories was to be governed.