which set up a process to divide the Northwest Territory into new states, followed by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to establish a system to survey the land. Finally, in 1787, the Confederation ...

Check back with the author for more. The first sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) began with the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Ordinance of 1875 provided that western ...

Over the next few weeks and months, I am going to endeavour to tell the history of Southwest Missouri and Barry County. I ...

The previous 1784 and 1785 ordinances failed to address the problem. In 1787, Dane and the Continental Congress drafted another ordinance. It passed July 13, 1787. The Northwest Ordinance became ...

(Photo by Gretchen Dowler) MARIETTA — Citizens of Marietta gathered around the Start Westward Memorial Thursday morning to celebrate the 236th Anniversary of the Northwest Territory Ordinance of ...