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.

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

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

The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery in the new territory north of the Ohio River, but did not end it for those slaves held by settlers already in the territory.

Map of the Northwest Territory as established by the U. S. Congress in the Northwest Ordinance, shown with present-day state borders, and correct spatial relationship between Lakes Michigan and Erie.

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.

When Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which authorized Ohio to begin the process of becoming a U. S. state, the language defining Ohio's northern boundary differed slightly from that used in the Northwest Ordinance: the border was to be " an east and west line drawn through the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line Canada ; thence with the same, through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid.

For unknown reasons, Surveyor General Tiffin ordered the two surveys to close on the Northwest Ordinance ( Fulton ) line, rather than Harris ' line, perhaps lending implicit support to Michigan's claims over Ohio's.

* July 13 – The U. S. Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory.

# The passage of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

However the area had been the subject of dispute between the Indian Nations and the United States since the passage of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

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 BLM's pure roots go back to the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

Wilmot offered the following to the House in language modeled after the Northwest Ordinance of 1787:

American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 G. I.

Their proposals for the governance of the territory led to the passage of the Ordinance of 1787, which would guide the Northwest Territory until the establishment of states that it called for.

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

Under his Presidency, the Northwest Ordinance and United States Constitution were passed.

The roots of this design were born out of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the subsequent Northwest Ordinance of 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.

Through the creation of the Northwest Territory in 1787, they began to divide the land north of the Ohio River for settlement.

The small strip of land surrounding the mouth of the Maumee River was under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Territory, because the borders originally drawn up for the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set a territorial boundary as the southernmost edge of Lake Michigan.

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.

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.

" 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 ).

* The Ordinance of 1787 could not confer either freedom or citizenship within the Northwest Territory to non-white individuals.

* 1787 – Northwest Territory created, including area to become Harris.

The first European settlers to the land that would become Lowell arrived in the late 18th century after the 1787 Northwest Ordinance opened the territory for settlement.

Eager to develop additional lands, the new government decided to pay veterans of the Revolution with warrants for land in the Northwest Territory, which was organized under federal authority in 1787 by the Northwest Ordinance.

The United States Congress and the Indiana State Legislature had just passed the Swamp Reclamation Act under terms from the Northwest Ordinance.

Under his administration as President, February 2, 1787 to October 29, 1787, the Northwest Ordinance and United States Constitution of 1787 were passed.

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.

When passed in New York in 1787, the Northwest Ordinance showed the influence of Jefferson.

The Austin & Northwest Railroad, which connected the state capitol with the cities of Burnet and Lampasas to the north, was finished in 1882 and passed through Running Brushy and the Cluck ranch.

The Continental Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785 and then the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to control the survey, sale, and settling of the new lands.

The Squamish history is a series of past events, both passed on through oral tradition and recent history, of the Squamish indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

Similar western boundary issues involving these and other states were resolved by the Northwest Ordinance passed by the Congress of the Confederation in July 1787.

This was much more controversial than it might at first appear: the Northwest Ordinance had been passed by the unicameral Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and it was not obvious whether this delegate would be a member of the House, Senate, or both.

Lewis and Clark stayed with the Mandan when they passed through the Upper Missouri region on their expedition to the Northwest, including five months in the winter of 1804-1805.

The 2nd Council of the Northwest Territories met sporadically, typically in Ottawa, and passed Ordinances for the benefit of the territory.

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.

In 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, establishing the boundaries of the region.

On June 22, 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which annexed the Northwest Territories to the province of Quebec.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, passed by the US Congress under the Articles of Confederation, gave Indians title, under U. S. law, to enjoy whatever lands they lived on.

Despite their objections, the Miami lost control of the long portage by the Treaty of Greenville ( 1795 ), since the Northwest Ordinance passed by Congress guaranteed free use of important portages in the region.

However, to prevent resurrection of the popularly elected town government, on September 16, 1810, an act passed repealing all laws pertaining to Michigan that had been passed by the Legislature of the Northwest Territory.

Laws were passed two years earlier by the Council of the Northwest Territories to enforce prohibition in that territory.

Both Roald Amundsen's first successful traverse of the Northwest Passage and Henry Larsen's second successful traverse of the Northwest Passage passed through the Bellot Strait.