What was the main aim of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
to pay off the national debt
to empower Congress to auction surplus land
to stipulate how new states would be created
to gradually end the slave trade in the Old Northwest

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What was the main aim of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
to pay off the national debt
to empower Congress to auction surplus land
to stipulate how new states would be created
to gradually end the slave trade in the Old Northwest

godmod360 · Answer

which do you think it is

anonymous · Answer

Clueless

anonymous · Answer

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godmod360 · Answer

Well the northwest ordinance was instituted when america began rapidly expanding westward and when this happened they needed a system that would create a method of admitting new states into the union that required a certain populatiuons and certain institutions