The Northwest Ordinance, enacted in 1787, established a framework for the governance of the Northwest Territory and included several important provisions. The correct response from the options you provided is:
D. no more than 5 states would be made.
The Northwest Ordinance specified that the territory could eventually be divided into no more than five states. Additionally, it also established that slavery would be prohibited in the Northwest Territory, which means option A is incorrect. The ordinance did not require all states to be Catholic or creation of Indian reservations, so options B and C are also incorrect.