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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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A critical step in this process was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, enacted by Congress to establish the initial government of the territory that eventually became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 designated new federal lands east of the Mississippi and between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, so MInnesota is only partially included.
The evolution of Ohio township government came about with the formation of the Ohio Territory, as authorized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The Ordinance of 1787 established a government over the Northwest Territory and gave impetus to westward expansion.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Provisions were made in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, in the State Constitution of 1802, and subsequent Acts of the State Legislature regarding the importance of education, and when the first settlers arrived with their children, they seemed to embrace those tenets wholeheartedly.
Second, they argued that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was unconstitutional because it violated the Ordinance of 1787, prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territory, of which Ohio had been a part.
To justify their opposition to adding new slave states, they pointed to the statements of Washington and Jefferson, and to the Ordinance of 1787, which forbade the extension of slavery into the Northwest.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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With the passage of The Ordinance of 1787, in July of that year, events for the settlement of the Northwest Territory moved rapidly.
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