Northwest Ordinance
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Northwest Ordinance
To devide and even sell the lands in the northwest area. Usually the government sold the lands.
Western lands.
partly out of their fear of western states having more power; land-rich states would pay of their war debts and the day to day costs of state government with the income from the sale of their wetsern lands
The Homestead Act of 1862 was meant to encourage settlers to western lands and create farmlands. The US government would allow settlers from the East to claim Federal western lands to farming if they met certain requirements. When these requirements were accomplished, the settlers would have free land from the US government.