Northwest Ordinance STAAR

How did the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance affect U.S. expansion?

• By funding a transportation network in uninhabited regions

• By establishing a process for territories to govern themselves

• By promoting the growth of southern plantation economies

• By creating a national bank to loan money to land investors

The Northwest Ordinance established guidelines for the orderly expansion of the United States by instituting a-

• method to purchase territory from foreign powers

• procedure for military takeovers of existing countries

• process through which states could be added to the Union

• compromise line that prohibited slavery in the West

The Northwest Ordinance is considered a milestone because it-

• more than doubled the size of the United States

• established a method for admitting new states to the Union

• encouraged state legislatures to ratify the Constitution

• proposed treaties with American Indians to allow the peaceful settlement of new territories

After the Revolutionary War, states were eager to expand into newly available territory. The states of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia argued over competing claims to land west of the Appalachian mountains. This conflict was address by the-

• Missouri Comromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Northwest Ordinance

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The ______________ outlined a process for admitting states to the Union and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen.

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Ghent

• Northwest Ordinance

• Louisiana Purchase Treaty

One requirement of the Northwest Ordinance was --

• the potential state must have a population of 60,000 inhabitants

• the potential state must require slavery

• states must pledge allegiance to Great Britain

• states must consent to adding a president to the constitution