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	| 1. | The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 
 
 |  Northwest Territory, 1796
 
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 | https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/nworder.asp 
 
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	| Online Source
 
 
 | The Avalon Project at Yale Law School 
 
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	| Printing 
 
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	| Supplemental sites
 
 
 | 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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