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  2. Land Ordinance of 1785 - Wikipedia

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    [27] By the time the Land Ordinance of 1785 was enacted, the New England states had used land grants for over a century to support public education and build new schools. The clause in the Land Ordinance of 1785 which dedicated "Lot Number 16" of each western township for public education reflected this regional New England experience. [28]

  3. Land Ordinance of 1784 - Wikipedia

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    The ordinance was further augmented with the Land Ordinance of 1785, [4] and superseded by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This latter ordinance provided for civil liberties and public education within new territories that would be created north and west of the Ohio river, and banned slavery therein. [5]

  4. Land Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. How Land Reshuffling Made the American West’s Racial Divide

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    Native American displacement and settler land grabs over the course of early U.S. history manufactured a new and rigid racial order not only for the Agua Caliente but for hundreds of other Native ...

  6. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the American Revolution. Beginning with the Seven Ranges in present-day Ohio, the PLSS has been used as the primary survey method in the United States.

  7. State Trust Lands - Wikipedia

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    The survey system divided public land into 36 one-square mile sections. See General Land Ordinance of 1785. The General Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance established and systematized the policies that governed the disposal of the public domain to settlers and the creation of new states. Under the framework of these ordinances ...

  8. History of the United States (1776–1789) - Wikipedia

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    Congress created a territorial government and set requirements for statehood with the Land Ordinance of 1784 and the Land Ordinance of 1785. In 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, which granted Congress greater control of the region by establishing the Northwest Territory.

  9. Northwest Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Land Ordinance of 1785 created an innovation in public education when it reserved resources for local public schools. The ordinance divided the territory into 36 mile 2 townships, and each township was further divided into 36 one mile 2 tracts for purposes of sale. The ordinance then stated that "there shall be reserved from sale the lot No ...