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Map of the Northwest Territory, 1782-1783. David B. Scott, A School History of the United States, from the discovery of America to the year 1880 (New York, NY: American Book Company, 1884) Downloaded from Maps ETC, on the web at http://etc.usf.edu/maps [map #03904]
The region was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris of 1783. Throughout the Revolutionary War, the region was part of the British Province of Quebec and the western theater of the war. It spanned all or large parts of six eventual U.S. states ( Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the northeastern part of Minnesota ).
Description: A map of the United States showing the territorial growth from 1783 to 1790. The map is color–coded to show the original territory after the American Revolutionary War, the Northwest Territory north of the Ohio River in 1787, the territory south of the Ohio River in 1790, and the Mississippi Territory.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set out a process by which land was to be organized as dependent territories and then as states fully equal in status to those already in the union. The right to vote was to be extended to almost all free white males.
Description: Map of the Northwest Territory in 1782-1783. Place Names: Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia ISO Topic Categories: oceans, location, inlandWaters
This map, made many years after the original encounters, depicts the territory north of the Ohio River as nearly devoid of Native peoples during the late 1700s. Images present American leaders in a positive light, while the original occupants are stereotyped as "hostile."
The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
