Northwest Ordinance Assessment

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

• True
• False

The Northwest Ordinance provided a pathway for territories to apply for

• statehood
• federal funding
• infrastructure grants

What was the name Congress gave to the lands that were won from the British after the Revolution?

• Northwest Territory
• Indian Territory
• Canada
• Black Swamp

According to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, one section of land in each township was set aside for...

• farms

• schools

• a courthouse

• a jail

Choose two reasons why the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was written.

• to tell how a territory could become a state

• to make the territory more diverse

• to set laws on how the territory was to be governed

• to bring peace between the French and the British

Which was NOT a provision under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

• Freedom of Religion

• Public Education

• Trial by Jury

• Improper Treatment of Native Americans

State governments were to be ___________________ in structure. This provision was repeated in the U.S. Constitution.-Article IV

• Republican

• Dictatorial

• Socialist

• Communist

New states were to be admitted “into the Congress of the United States, on an __________________ footing with the original States.”-Article IV

• Unequal

• Equal

Which of the following was NOT a right guaranteed to citizens living in the Northwest Territory?

• freedom of speech
• right to worship
• trial by jury
• right to cause panic

Basic rights of citizenship (e.g., religious liberty, right to trial by jury, writ of habeas corpus) were assured. These assurances were precursors to the Bill of Rights to the _________________________________

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta