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Explore the 7.1

Northwest Territory

on MyHistoryLab 7.2

WhAT role DID The 7.3
norThWeST TerrITory
PlAy In AMerICAn 7.4
hISTory?

In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance 7.5
transformed the course of
the expansion of the young MAKIng PeACe The treaty of Greenville, signed August 3 1795 ended the Northwest indian
United States. A huge swath of War in the Ohio country.
territory north of the Ohio River
had been claimed by eastern states, THE WESTERN INDIAN CONfEDERACy
but these states relinquished their Tribe
claims and the Northwest Ordinance Anishinabes (Ojibwes)
organized the settlement of these
lands. This territory eventually was Weas
divided among numerous modern illinois
American states and, importantly, Ottawas
slavery was not to be allowed in Menominees
the region. However, the ordinance Shawnees
ignored that the area in 1787 Lenapes (Delawares)
belonged to and was populated by Wyandots (Hurons)
numerous Native American nations. Mingos
During the next decade, conflict Miamis
ensued when members of some Kickapoos
nations formed the Western Indian Kinkashas
Confederacy to fight against the
United States in the Northwest Indian
War as the region began to open to
Euro-American settlement.

K e y Q u es T i O ns Use Myhistorylab Explorer to answer these questions:

Analysis Why might Consequence How did Comparison How did the
potential settlers in this area the outcome of the Northwest expansion of the U.S. population
resent being governed by an Indian War affect subsequent into the Northwest Territory
East Coast state? Native American land cessations? compare to slavery’s expansion
Map the claims of the eastern chart the extent of cessations in other areas?
states prior to the Northwest in the Northwest Territory after Map these two patterns to
Ordinance of 1787. 1795. consider future possible conflict.

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