Northwest Territory Research Paper

Originally, there were 13 colonies that declared independence from England and formed the United States of America. In the Proclamation of 1763, they said that they would not cross the Appalachian Mountains. After the War of 1812, the British abandoned their forts in the West and more and more people moved into the West. As people moved west, our country began to grow into the vast nation we have today. The Northwest Ordinance was a great additional to the United States. We gain this territory through the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain in 1787. It was very important for us to get to raise revenge and to extend republican society. “The Northwest Territory encompassed the area west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and north of the Ohio River to the border with British Canada.” (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed) Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and part of Minnesota were the states that made up the Northwest Territory. The main reason for it is to establish orderly and impartial procedures for the settlement and political incorporation of the Northwest Territory. The area covered more than 260,000 square miles. In 1803, Louisiana Purchase was purchased through a treaty with France. Napoleon needed money to finance the French Revolution. The United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of

We purchased Florida through a treaty, Adams-Onís Treaty. Although we took Florida from the Spanish, we really took it from the Native Americans. Andrew Jackson passed an act, Indian Removal Act of 1830, which removed all Native American from Florida. The Native American, or Cherokee, called this the Rail of Tears. “The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail passes through the present-day states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.” (Maps) We wanted Florida for gold and to expand the United States