THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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• What is the difference between PUSH and
PULL factors?
• Give ONE example of EACH.
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Essential Question:
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What causes people to move or migrate from one
place to another?
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Learning Targets:
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Discuss the push and pull factors of migration in the
U.S.
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Explain how push and pull factors impact migration.
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POU (I’ll know I’ve got it when…)
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I can explain the push and pull factors that brought
settlers to the Northwest Territory.
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8th Grade
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Problem:
Many states made claims to the western
lands (Northwest Territory).
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Solution to the Problem:
All states agreed to cede (give) their claims to
Congress, so Congress can sell the land for the
good of the country.
Boundaries of the Northwest Territory: Great Lakes (north),
Pennsylvania (east), Ohio River (south), Mississippi River (west)
Dividing the Land
LAND ORDINANCE OF
1785: Congress’s
plan to sell the land
of the Northwest
Territory.
A. Rectangular Survey
System – carefully
surveyed the land
into squares to be
sold.
Dividing the Land
1. Township – the largest division of land.
It is thirty-six square miles.
Dividing the Land
2. Section – 36 sections in a township. It is
one square mile or 640 acres.
Dividing the Land
Acre – the smallest division of land. It
sold for $1 per acre.
The average size farm was 40 acres. So, it
sold for $40.
Education
Education
One section of each township is reserved for
education. The goal is to start a school for each
township.
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1787
This document establishes…
the rules and procedures for the
expansion of the United States.
The Steps to Statehood
1. When the population
reaches 5,000 adult
males the area can:
a. elect it’s own
legislature.
b. send non-voting
members to U.S.
Congress.
The Steps to Statehood
2. When the population reaches 60,000
adult males the area can:
a. can write a state constitution and
apply for statehood.
b. If Congress approves the state
Constitution that area will become a
state.
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Created Five States:
Ohio (1803)
Indiana (1816)
Illinois (1818)
Michigan (1837)
Wisconsin (1848)
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Rights Guaranteed:
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Trial by jury
Public education
Freedom of religion
Outlawed slavery in the
new states!
Why would people move west?
• Overcrowded cities
– Cities in the eastern U.S. continued to grow, and the
conditions were not always good
• Land
– As the population grew, good land for farming was
harder to find
– Land also became more expensive since there was less
available