Question

Choose all of the items that correctly describe the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

Answer 1

It was the first act passed by the U.S. Congress after the ratification of the Constitution.
It created the first organized territory of the United States.
It affected lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
President Washington threatened to veto, but did not.
Slavery was prohibited in the territories.
The states of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan would be created from it.
The states of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri would also be created from it.
It established a precent for national territorial expansion.