The Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory. This legislation, enacted in 1787, established a framework for governance and created a method for admitting new states from the territory, while also ensuring certain rights for residents, including religious freedom and trial by jury. However, it explicitly prohibited the establishment of slavery in the region.
What did the Northwest Ordinance
outlaw in the Northwest Territory?
religious freedom
slavery
trial by jury
admission of new states
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