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Land Ordinance 1785
Land Ordinance 1785
Northwest 1787
Northwest 1787
Miscellaneous
100
Section number that was aside for educational purposes.
What is sixteen?
100
Minimum price per acre in the Northwest Territory.
What was $1?
100
Minimum and maximum number of states to be created from the Northwest Territory.
What is three to five?
100
Examples of civil liberties that were guaranteed in the Northwest Territory.
What is religion, trial by jury, writ of habeas corpus, no cruel or unusual punishment, right to enter freely into private contracts, right to compensation for eminent domain?
100
Colonial region that had education for all capable children.
What were the New England colonies?
200
Number of square miles in each township.
What is thirty six?
200
Two problems faced by the Confederation Congress with the sell of the land in the Northwest Territory.
What were squatters and Native Americans?
200
Number of citizens necessary to apply for statehood.
What was 60,000 people?
200
Five states eventually formed by the land in the Northwest Territory.
What were Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio?
200
Colonial region that did not have much in the way of public education.
What are the Southern Colonies?
300
Number of sections that were to be set aside for veterans of the American Revolutionary War.
What is four?
300
Number of sections left for public auction.
What was 24?
300
Who the district would be governed by until they could establish their own government.
What was a governor and three judges appointed by the Congress?
300
When a territory elected an assembly, it send this many members to Congress.
What was one non voting member?
300
Colonial region that primarily had parochial education.
What were the Middle Colonies?
400
Number of sections to be set aside for religious purposes and number of sections to be set aside for university.
What are one and two?
400
Before the American Revolution, Britain gave states the rights to all land between their colonies and this major body of water.
What was the Pacific Ocean?
400
Number of free adult males necessary for a territory to form its own representative legislature.
What was 5000?
400
Area included in the Northwest Territory (geographically).
What was all land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
400
Number of states required to pass the Northwest Ordinance.
What was all thirteen (unanimous)?
500
Number of acres in each section township under the Land Ordinance of 1785.
What is 640?
500
The length of each side of a township.
What was six miles?
500
This was forever outlawed by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
What was slavery?
500
Territory that became the first state (in 1803) from land in the Northwest Territory.
What was Ohio?
500
Reason southern states went along with the Northwest Ordinance even thought it outlawed slavery.
What was because it protected the profitability of their tobacco crops (economic competetion)?