Land Ordinance (other)
Land Ordinance may refer to the following acts passed by the Congress of the Confederation of the United States: * Land Ordinance of 1784 * Land Ordinance of 1785 * Land Ordinance of 1787, commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, that created the Northwest Territory See also * Ordinance (other) * Land Reform Ordinance (other) Land Reform Ordinance may refer to: * Kerala State, India, a 1957 proposed act, and a number of subsequent acts in Land reform in Kerala * Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, * Zimbabwe's 1992 Land Acquisition Act, Land reform in Zimbabwe#Compulsory ...

Land Ordinance Of 1784
The Ordinance of 1784 (enacted April 23, 1784) called for the land in the recently created United States which was located west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states. Adoption The ordinance was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation. Thomas Jefferson was the principal author. His original draft of the ordinance contained five important articles: * The new states shall remain forever a part of the United States of America. * They shall bear the same relation to the confederation as the original states. * They shall pay their apportionment of the federal debts. * They shall in their governments uphold republican forms. * After the year 1800 there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of them. Notably the map in Jefferson's draft of the committee's report to Congress included two states to be carved out of land ceded by Vir ...
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Land Ordinance Of 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. Congress at the time did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation, so land sales provided an important revenue stream. The Ordinance set up a survey system that eventually covered over three-quarters of the area of the continental United States. The earlier Land Ordinance of 1784 was a resolution written by Thomas Jefferson calling for Congress to take action. The land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River was to be divided into ten separate states. However, the 1784 resolution did not define the mechanism by which the land would become states, or how the territories would be governed or settled before they became states. The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanis ...
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Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. It created the Northwest Territory, the new nation's first organized incorporated territory, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British North America and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the territory's western boundary. Pennsylvania was the eastern boundary. In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain yielded the region to the United States. However, the Confederation Congress faced numerous problems gaining control of the land such as the unsanctioned movement of American settlers into the Ohio Valley; violent confrontations with the region's indigenous peoples; the on ...
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Ordinance (other)
Ordinance may refer to: Law * Ordinance (Belgium), a law adopted by the Brussels Parliament or the Common Community Commission * Ordinance (India), a temporary law promulgated by the President of India on recommendation of the Union Cabinet * Ordinance (university), a particular class of internal legislation in a United Kingdom university * In England during the Civil War, a law passed by parliament without royal assent; see List of Ordinances and Acts of the Parliament of England, 1642–1660 ** Self-denying Ordinance, passed by the Long Parliament of England on 3 April 1645 * Legislation made by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong; see also Law of Hong Kong * A royal decree, law promulgated on the monarch's own authority * Delegated legislation for the Australian territories of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, passed by the Federal Executive Council (Australia), Federal Executive Council (these were mostly converted to acts after the territories gain ...
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