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Northwest Territory

noun

  1. the region north of the Ohio River, organized by Congress in 1787, comprising present-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the eastern part of Minnesota.


Northwest Territory

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In 1803 the state of Ohio was carved out of the Northwest Territory.

The warlike boldness of Colonel Clark had gained the northwest territory for the new nation.

She is the witch of the northwest territory, and many is the boat that she has decoyed ashore to the rifle and the tomahawk.

After peace was made in 1798, he was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory.

In the Northwest territory, the old home of Jacksonian Democracy, they overtopped agriculture.

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