Northwest Ordinance Of 1787

Riyana Patel 12/6/15 Mr. Riotto US 1 H
Chapter 7 Summary The chapter starts of with a detailed description of events before a series of protests from 1786-1787 known as Shay’s Rebellion, led by Daniel Shay in Western Massachusetts. This rebellion was to overthrow the state government by going against the Springfield arsenal; this movement was an example of the weakened government and led to the ratification and adoption of the United States Constitution. With the end of the royal authority the Continental Congress became the national government and formed state governments that were governed by the people. Although by the end of 1777 Articles of Confederation were proposed by John Dickinson, in order to help keep

Small farmers were not able to play their taxes and soldiers were not getting their sufficient amount of money, in effect of the huge expenses from the Revolutionary War. All these events led up to Shay’s Rebellion, which was previously mentioned. This rebellion was in the fall of 1786 with this the nation finally woke up and some started to realize the problems with the Articles. Congress wanted to open up land for the states to settle and develop in the west. With the Land Ordinance of 1785 passed by Congress, a grid system was formed to sell chunks of land to the state. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was the most important because it gave the territories a political structure by abolishing slavery. The Southwest Ordinance of 1790 prohibited slavery as well in the U.S. territory south of the Ohio River. Also with the new extension of land major gaps became evident between creditors, people who are in charge of taking money owed, and debtors, people who owed money to the