The Northwest Ordinances were the acts of the Congress of the Confederation passed to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory:
- Northwest Ordinance of 1784
- Northwest Ordinance of 1785
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the best known of the three.
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“I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this purpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:8,9.