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All of the following statements about the Northwest Ordinances are true EXCEPT:

A.
They outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory.
B.
There were four Northwest Ordinances passed between 1783 and 1790.
C.
They divided the land into 36 square-mile parcels with the center of each parcel designated as land for a schoolhouse.
D.
They were a framework of government for the land that is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota

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The statement that is NOT true about the Northwest Ordinances is:

B. There were four Northwest Ordinances passed between 1783 and 1790.

There were actually three major Northwest Ordinances: the first in 1784 (which was not fully enacted), the second in 1785 (which established a system for surveying and selling land), and the most significant one in 1787 (which set up a government for the Northwest Territory and included provisions related to slavery).