Northwest Territory
Q. How could a territory become a state according to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
It stipulated that each district could send one representative to Congress upon its attaining a population of 20,000, and it would become eligible for statehood when its population equaled that of the least-populous existing state. (This ordinance was superseded by the Ordinance of 1787.)
Table of Contents
- Q. How could a territory become a state according to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
- Q. What did Northwest Ordinance of 1787 do?
- Q. What was one of Jefferson’s goals with the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1785?
- Q. Why did France want to sell the Louisiana Territory?
- Q. What was a major consequence of the Louisiana Purchase?
Q. What did Northwest Ordinance of 1787 do?
Also known as the Ordinance of 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a government for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union, and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen states.
| Territory Northwest of the River Ohio | |
|---|---|
| • Northwest Ordinance | July 13, 1787 |
| • Affirmed by United States Congress | August 7, 1789 |
| • Indiana Territory created | May 7, 1800 |
| • Statehood of Ohio | March 1, 1803 |
Q. What was one of Jefferson’s goals with the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1785?
Ordinance of 1784 The Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 were drafted by Thomas Jefferson. The primary purposes of the ordinances were to create procedures for dividing the land east of the Appalachian Mountains and west of the Mississippi River for settlement.
Q. Why did France want to sell the Louisiana Territory?
Napoleon Bonaparte sold the land because he needed money for the Great French War. The British had re-entered the war and France was losing the Haitian Revolution and could not defend Louisiana.
Q. What was a major consequence of the Louisiana Purchase?
The consequences of the Louisiana Purchase were the enormous expansion in the size of territory controlled by the United States, control over the strategically important Port of New Orleans and the Mississippi River Basin, the removal of one major European imperial power, France, from the equation, and the facilitation …
