Northwest Ordinance Dbq

The northwest ordinance created a lot of problems for the government. Such as How many people must be in a territory before it could apply for statehood and join the rest of the states. Or how many states could develop in that area. But one of the bigger topics was slavery. What would the government do about the question of slavery, or at least how far would they go? So in order to try and stop slavery from spreading into the newer areas and territories the government forbid slavery. However in this new region the law about slavery being forbidden was just looked over. The territories did not abide by it by no means. They continued to have slavery with the government doing nothing about it. (The constitution: Evolution of a government. 2) The government did nothing about the slave owners in this region. Making the government almost seem to have no power to control any of the people in this new region. Could this have been one of the reasons for the government to just roll over and try and compromise on slavery every time it came up? If the government had done something about this disobedience slavery might not have been able to move into the old northwest or continue to move into the Louisiana purchase. Being able to almost or possibly stop the American civil war before it started. But since slavery was still a very

The reason for the Missouri compromise was because Missouri wanted to become a slave state that came out of the Louisiana Purchase. The government did not like this because it would make the slave states outnumber the free states in America. But the government did not want to anger the other slave states by saying no to Missouri in becoming a slave state. So another compromise was made in order to keep the country from fighting. Being the Missouri compromise of 1820.(Jeffersonian Anti-Slavery and Missouri Crisis