The Northwest Ordinance, officially titled the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, laid out the process by which new states would be admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory, and it established a precedent for the orderly expansion of the United States. Among the provisions included in the ordinance, it famously outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory.
Therefore, the correct answer among the options provided is:
slavery
What did the Northwest Ordinance outlaw in the Northwest Territory?
religious freedom
admission of new states
slavery
trial by jury
which is right?
1 answer