Our Nation Unit 6 Lesson 6

This is land owned or controlled by a country

• territory

• policy

• western lands

• california

What policy did Congress pass to settle western lands?

• Treaty of Paris

• Proclamation of 1763

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Continental Congress

All of these are facts about the Northwest Ordinance except:

• set up rules for governing new land

• divided the area north of the Ohio River into territories

• each territory had at least 10,000 slaves and freemen

• a territory could apply for statehood when it had 60,000 people

American Indians property, rights, and liberty were strongly protected.

• True

• False

Which of these were NOT of the 5 new states that were established in 1787?

• Ohio

• Indiana

• Wisconsin

• Missouri