Ashleigh Coleman In the Land Ordinance of 1785, Jefferson came up with a plan ... from which the river’s great wilderness would be tamed into a map. Brown and Robbins assembled teams of men ...

When assessing and selling the land to states and individuals as part of the Land Ordinance of 1785, the United States decided squares were the most efficient option. They created townships by ...

and they introduced the Land Ordinance of 1785. This landmark legislation aimed to create an organized and systematic approach to surveying and distributing land in the western territories. The ...