being the ratification of the Northwest Ordinances. These ordinances provide principles that still exist in our government today. In particular‚ the Northwest Ordinances were the first American document to outlaw slavery. 88 years later‚ the thirteenth amendment was ratified‚ abolishing slavery. Additionally‚ the Northwest Ordinances required territories to have three branches of government‚ a concept later applied to the Constitution. Moreover‚ the Northwest Ordinances required new states to have
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congressional ordinance imposed by Jefferson in 1784‚ the Northwest Ordinance of 1787‚ and the African slave trade that navigated its way through ending slavery.
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with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ends with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861. The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. It was a judicious compromise with temporary tutelage and then permanent equality. This ordinance covered
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western land. This was possible thanks to the Treaty of Paris‚ Northwest Ordinance‚ and the Land Ordinance of 1785. For the Treaty of Paris‚ Britain had to surrender control of the region known as the Northwest Territory. No other government has ever been able to take this large territory that stretched from the Appalachian Mountains west to the Ohio and Mississippi River. In order to regulate these new western lands the Northwest Ordinance was formed. This declared that the region would be divided into
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787‚ the most important out of all three acts‚ created the Northwest Territory as the first organized region of the new coming United States‚ out of the areas close to the Great Lakes‚ and to the north and west of the Ohio river. This legislation also predetermined to ban slavery in the entire Northwest Territory. The new states that were to be included were to have equal status as the original
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Influences on the Constitution The Constitution was adopted on September 17‚ 1787‚ by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania‚ and ratified by conventions in eleven States. It went into effect on March 4‚ 1789. The historical influences behind the constitution included Aristotle‚ the Magna Carta‚ the writings of John Locke‚ and the English Bill of Rights from 1689. The Magna Carta was written in 1215. It was the first document to challenge the authority of the king‚
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|Reference: WWW.LOC.GOV. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html |as a base to write the constitution. | |Northwest Ordinance |The Northwest Ordinance‚ adopted July 13‚ 1787‚ by the Second Continental Congress. The Northwest Ordinance |The Northwest Ordinance was used to make changes to | | |was made to allow new states to join the union.
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whereas the Federalists favored the strong central government. Jefferson preferred a less centralized government with more power for the states. Jefferson‚ being a brilliant man‚ drafted the Northwest Ordinance also known as the Ordinance of 1787. This ordinance provided a structure for government of the Northwest Territory. Jefferson’s outstanding leadership led to his being elected President of the United States in the 1800
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An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio/1787 (Doc H). This shows the step towards a slave free country. Slave’s lives were not the only one’s changing through the Revolutionary Era. Women’s life was changing significantly during the
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What Caused The Civil War? There were many different contributing factors to the start of The Civil War. Five of these causes were the Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise‚ John Brown’s raid‚ The 1850 Compromise‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the constant conflict between the North and South. The Northwest Ordinance said the there could be no slavery in states north of the Ohio River‚ however slave holders moved west to new states. This then led to the Missouri Compromise which said no slave
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