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Northwest Ordinance
noun
- the act of Congress in 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory and setting forth the steps by which its subdivisions might become states.
Northwest Ordinance
- A law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Middle West . The United States was governed under the Articles of Confederation at the time. The Northwest Ordinance organized the territory into townships of thirty-six square miles each and provided for self-government and religious toleration in the territory. Slavery was prohibited.
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