The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

* 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory.

With the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, control of the army and the power to direct the militia of the states was concurrently delegated to the federal Congress.

* Member of the Continental Congress ( 1774 – 1779, 1784 – 1785, 1787 )

* 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U. S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory in what is now the upper Midwestern United States.

He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, President of the Continental Congress, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

On February 21, 1787, the Articles Congress called a convention of state delegates at Philadelphia to propose a plan of government.

Subsequently, the Philadelphia Convention proposed in 1787 to grant Congress exclusive power to raise and support a standing army and navy of unlimited size.

The Federal Convention sent the proposed Constitution to the Confederation Congress, which at the end of September 1787 submitted it to the states for ratification.

How to formally include these new frontier areas into the nation was an important issue in the Continental Congress of the 1780s and was partly resolved by the Northwest Ordinance ( 1787 ).

The city hosted the First Continental Congress before the war ; the Second Continental Congress, which signed the United States Declaration of Independence, during the war ; and the Constitutional Convention ( 1787 ) after the war.

Houston Street is named for William Houstoun, who was a delegate from State of Georgia to the Continental Congress from 1784 through 1786 and to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

In July 1787, the Congress of the Confederation gave to the Ohio Company of Associates " two townships of good land for the support of a literary institution " in the newly created Northwest Territory.

It was named for William Grayson, delegate to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787 and one of the first two U. S. Senators from Virginia.

Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Continental Congress opened what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin to settlement.

By an ordinance of the Congress of the United States passed in July 13, 1787, under the Articles of Confederation, the whole of the territory of the United States lying northwest of the Ohio River, though still occupied by the British, was organized as the Northwest Territory.

Congress authorized $ 55, 000 as payment for editing and publishing seven volumes of the Madison papers, including his unique notes on the 1787 convention.

In 1787, the Congress of Confederation passed an ordinance which organized the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River.

He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 until 1783, and also from 1785 until 1787, serving as its president for five months from June 6 to November 5, 1786 after the resignation of John Hancock.

The Northwest Ordinance ( formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance or " The Ordinance of 1787 ") was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787.

* 1802: Congress restated the Ordinance Line of 1787 as Ohio's northern boundary, in the Enabling Act of 1802, which allowed Ohio to become a state.

Illinois, a free state, had been free as a territory under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and had prohibited slavery in its constitution in 1819 when it was admitted as a state.

In the Midwest, slavery was prohibited by the Freedom Ordinance of 1787.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery, restricted primogeniture, mandated universal public education, provided for affordable farm land to people who settled and improved it, and required peaceful, lawful treatment of the Indian population.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

From 1787 until his death in 1795, Wedgwood actively participated in the abolition of slavery cause, and his Slave Medallion, which brought public attention to abolition.

" His case was based on the fact that although he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, he had lived with his master Dr. John Emerson in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, including Illinois and Minnesota ( which was then part of the Wisconsin Territory ).

Opposed to slavery, Wythe freed all his slaves beginning in 1787, after the death of his second wife.

Between 1790 and 1810, around 98, 000 slaves, along with their owners, moved west into the region south of the Ohio River ( the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 had forbidden slavery in states north of the Ohio ).

According to James Madison who took notes at the Convention, Morris spoke openly against slavery on August 8, 1787:

Lincoln said that the national policy was to limit the spread of slavery, and mentioned ( both at Jonesboro and later in his Cooper Union Address ) the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which banned slavery from a large part of the modern-day Midwest, as an example of this policy.

The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade formed in 1787 was formed by a group of Evangelical English Protestants allied with Quakers to unite in their shared opposition to slavery and the slave trade.

The first U. S. region entirely free of slavery was the Northwest Territory, which was ordained free under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, passed just before the U. S. Constitution was ratified.

The Northwest Territory, now known as part of the Midwest, was organized under the Northwest Ordinance with a prohibition on slavery in 1787.

Along with his family, Edwards brought a number of slaves, whom he did not free even though the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 had made slavery illegal in the territory.

The United States Constitution of 1787 had protected slavery for twenty years ; even so, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society was formed, and held its first meeting at the temporary Capital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1794.

In 1787, possibly with the help of his friend Olaudah Equiano, Cugoano published an attack on slavery entitled Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species ( 1787 ).

Prior to 1807, the 1787 U. S. Constitution and the 1793 Fugitive Slave Law were the lone laws on slavery that applied nationally.

He helped found the New York Manumission Society in opposition to slavery and served in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787.

The society asked him to bring the matter of slavery to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

In 1787, at 42 years old, Andrianampoinimerina incited a rebellion against Andrianjafy, with the help of the commoners ' Council of Elders and those sold into slavery.