The Ordinance of 1785 created the blueprint for dividing the Northwest Territory into rectangular land parcels called townships, which could further be subdivided into areas as small as 640 acres. After the year 1800 there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of them.They shall in their governments uphold republican forms.They shall pay their apportionment of the federal debts.They shall bear the same relation to the confederation as the original states.
The new states shall remain forever a part of the United States of America.Below are Jefferson's five main articles from the Ordinance of 1784: As part of the Ordinance of 1784, Jefferson added an article that would have effectively ended the spread of slavery, but this article (the last) failed by a single vote and was not adopted. Specifically, the Ordinance of 1784 divided the land into self-governing districts, that could each apply for statehood when its population equaled that of the least populous state. This land was originally claimed by New York and Virginia, but was ceded to the newly created federal government during the Revolutionary War. The primary purposes of the ordinances were to create procedures for dividing the land east of the Appalachian Mountains and west of the Mississippi River for settlement. The Ordinances of 17 were drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
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