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Date: 1787Northwest Ordinance  

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  • The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was the blueprint followed by Congress to form new states from the trans-Mississippi west. Although originally applicable to the territory north of the Ohio River, the ordinance established a process in which a territory became a state coequal with the original thirteen states while concurrently guaranteeing rights for U.S. colonists. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West; Northwest Ordinance]

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  • Date: 1787

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-F4T0RBC8-Q

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