CS 6 Northwest Ordinance

The Northwest Ordinance said that slavery was illegal in the Northwest Territory

• True
• False

The Northwest Territory included land that became which state

• Virginia
• Ohio
• Texas
• Washington

The Northwest Ordinance provided a pathway for territories to apply for

• statehood
• federal funding
• infrastructure grants

The Northwest Ordinance set up the government for the

• Louisiana Purchase
• Northwest Reserve
• Northwest Territory
• Northeast Territory

How many people were needed for a territory to become a state?

• 100
• 1738
• 60,000
• 10,000

Where were ideas from NW Ordinance used?

• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution
• Treaty of Paris (Treaty that ended Revolutionary War)

The Northwest Ordinance

• provided a temporary governance as a territory

• set precedents that influenced how the US would be governed in later years

• new states would have equal footing with the original states

• established private schools in all townships