what was the name of the states of the northwest territory
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Northwest Territory Northwest Territory. The Northwest Territory, or Old Northwest, refers to the area that became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota. The region comprises more than 260,000 square miles. The area was hotly contested by the major European colonial powers, France and Britain.
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Jeffersonâs âAbsurdâ Plan for New Northwestern States Adding to the confusion is the unclear status of the territory south of the Northwest Territory (nowadays the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi), contested between the Spanish, the US and several states with individual claims.
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Slavery in the Northwest Territory Slavery in the Northwest Territory. As the Continental Congress discussed the Northwest Ordinance, a Massachusetts delegate suggested adding a provision banning slavery in the Northwest Territory, which included the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. The Ordinance, including this measure, was adopted on July 13, 1787.
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Northwest Territory Northwest Territory The Northwest Territory, or Old Northwest, refers to the area that became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota. The region comprises more than 260,000 square miles. The area was hotly contested by the major European colonial powers, France and Britain.
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Northwest Territories Northwest Territories. The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old North-West Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870, but the current borders were formed on April 1, 1999, when the territory was subdivided to create Nunavut to the east, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
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US Hist & Gov - REGENTS Practice q's The Northwest Ordinance created the first organized territory of  the United States. It was passed July 13, 1787 and created a  territory from the lands south of the Great L … akes, north of the  Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. Answered. In American Revolution.
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- The Northwest Territory was the land ceded by Virginia to the newly-created United States and basically extended west from Pennsylvania's western border and north from the Ohi…o River westward to the Mississippi River. It therefore included, wholly or in part, six present-day states: Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
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Northwest Territory Initially colonized by French fur traders, Ohio became a British colonial possession following the French and Indian War in 1754. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain ceded control of the territory to the newly formed United States, which incorporated it into the Northwest Territory.
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Primary Documents in American History 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.he Journals of the Continental Congress contains the legislative history of the Northwest Ordinance. April 26, 1787 - A committee issued its report on an ordinance for disposing of the Western Territory. May 9, 1787 - The proposed ordinance was debated.
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- The law which provided the method for creating new states within the Northwest Territory. The Territory included land which now comprises five states north and west of the Ohi…o River. It was acquired by the United States from the British under the Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
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Northwest Territory Northwest Territory. On July 13, 1787, the Confederation Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance. The act created the Northwest Territory. It also established a form of government and specified how the various parts of the Northwest Territory could become states. The Northwest Ordinance required the creation of at least three but not more than five states from the Northwest Territory.
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The Oregon Territory, 1846 The Oregon Territory stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, encompassing the area including present-day Oregon, Washington, and most of British Columbia. Originally Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States claimed the territory. In 1819, under terms of the Transcontinental Treaty, Spain ceded its claims to the territory to the United States.
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- The name would come back in 1800, when Congress carved the state of Ohio out of the Northwest Territory and gave the name Indiana to the remaining territorial land and, 16 years later, a new state.
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Historic regions of the United States Territory of Idaho (1863–1890) preceded by parts of the territories of: Washington, Dakota, and Nebraska; became the State of Idaho, the Montana Territory, additions to the Dakota Territory and additions to the Wyoming Territory.
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Primary Documents in American History 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. An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States, North-west of the river Ohio (This copy has annotations in the margin that indicate changes made in the May 10, 1787, reading of the ordinance and ascribed to Nathan Dane).
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List of Governors of Washington Washington Territory was created on March 2, 1853 from the northern half of Oregon Territory. At this point, Washington Territory also included the northern panhandle of modern Idaho and parts of Montana. The southern half of Idaho was assigned to the Washington Territory in 1859 after Oregon was admitted as a state.
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Northwest Ordinance (1787) The Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.fficially titled An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio, the Northwest Ordinance was passed on July 13, 1787.
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Northwest Territory The Old Northwest Territory included all the then-owned land of the United States west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and northwest of the Ohio River.It covered all of the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the northeastern part of Minnesota.he square surveys of the Northwest Territory would become a hallmark of the Midwest, as sections, townships, counties (and states) were laid out scientifically, and land was sold quickly and efficiently (although not without some speculative aberrations).
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AMERICAN HISTORY EXAM REVIEW NORTHWEST TERRITORY. NORTHWEST TERRITORY. Part of the vast domain ceded by Great Britain to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1783), the Northwest Territory encompassed the area west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and north of the Ohio River to the border with British Canada.
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Oregon Territory Originally claimed by several countries (See Oregon Country), the region was divided between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1846. When established, the territory encompassed an area that included the current states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as parts of Wyoming and Montana.
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Choctaw After the United States was formed, the entire states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, and portions of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania were all later created from the territory encompassed earlier by the Colony of Virginia.
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AP US Review The ordinance was unanimously passed on July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the … ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States. It contained the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.
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Northwest Ordinance The ordinance created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British North America and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the Territory's western boundary.
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- A state of the northwest United States in the Pacific Northwest. It was admitted as the 33rd state in 1859. Claimed by the United States after Capt. Robert Gray explored the mouth of the Columbia River in 1792, the area was further explored by Lewis and Clark in 1805 and was soon the site of fur-trading posts.
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Southwest Territory The Southwest Territory was governed under an act of Congress, An Act for the Government of the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio (Southwest Ordinance), passed May 26, 1791. This act essentially mirrored the earlier Northwest Ordinance, the key difference being over slavery, which was prohibited by the Northwest Ordinance, but not the Southwest Ordinance.
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Primary Documents in American History Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The Northwest Ordinance, officially titled An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio, was adopted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787.lso 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.