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Living the Revolution: America, 1789-1820
Topic: Predicaments of Early Republican LifeTopic: ReligionTopic: PoliticsTopic: ExpansionTopic: Equality
Topic: Expansion
Overview of Living the Revolution
Resource Menu: Expansion
Text 1. The Northwest Ordinance
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Text 2. Noble/Lincecum
Text 3. Thomas Jefferson
Text 4. Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Text 5. Cornplanter/Washington
Text 6. Indians/U.S. Agents
Text 7. Elias Boudinot
Text 8. Lewis Cass
Text 9. Background


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1.  The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Northwest Territory, 1796
Northwest Territory, 1796
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https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/nworder.asp

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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

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Background of the Northwest Ordinance

Background of the Ordinance with maps

Facsimiles of the Northwest Ordinance

Jefferson's 1784 proposal for governance of the Northwest Territory






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