Land Ordinance Of 1784 Research Paper

Land Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 (pp. 262–263)- the Ordinance of 1784 established stages of self-government for the West, it also determined how the west would be settled. it was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, and it was laid out to where the region would be divided into districts that were at first governed by congress, but later admitted to the union as states. The second Ordinance in 1785 regulated sales of land north of the Ohio river, known as the old Northwest. The government would serve the land then sell in sections, of a square mile (640 acres) at $1 per acre. Also in every township, one section would be set aside for a school. They did this because many in congress believed that education was the road to a prosperous nation, some of the people who thought this was Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams

265)- Veterans of the American war of independence, angered by the lack of pay for their service as they were promised by the continental congress, began to protest and call for action. They modeled their tactics on the crowd activities of the 1760s and 1770s and employed liberty trees and liberty poles as symbols of their cause. Governor James Bowdoin, however, didn't really care too much about their issue and dispatched an army, led by revolutionary general Benjamin Lincoln. They were dispersed in January 1787, and 1000 were then arrested. This all happened when the American army was in need of soldiers to fight the superior British force. So congress began to offer promised pay, along with land, when this was not given naturally people became upset and called for action. Meanwhile in Great Britain the British looked on with what I expect to be a face that reads, I told you this would happen, or it is to be expected that they couldn´t keep everything in