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Author: Peter S. Onuf Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268105480 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
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This new edition of Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance, originally published in 1987, is an authoritative account of the origins and early history of American policy for territorial government, land distribution, and the admission of new states in the Old Northwest. In a new preface, Peter S. Onuf reviews important new work on the progress of colonization and territorial expansion in the rising American empire.
Author: Peter S. Onuf Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268105480 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
Book Description
This new edition of Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance, originally published in 1987, is an authoritative account of the origins and early history of American policy for territorial government, land distribution, and the admission of new states in the Old Northwest. In a new preface, Peter S. Onuf reviews important new work on the progress of colonization and territorial expansion in the rising American empire.
Author: Frederick D. Williams Publisher: MSU Press ISBN: 087013969X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 138
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Adoption of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 ended a long and sometimes acrimonious debate over the question of how to organize and govern the western territories of the United States. Many eastern leaders viewed the Northwest Territory as a colonial possession, while freedom-loving settlers demanded local self- government. These essays address the ambiguities of the Ordinance, balance of power politics in North America, missionary activity in the territory, slavery, and higher education in the Old Northwest.
Author: David G. McCullough Publisher: ISBN: 9781982131661 Category : HISTORY Languages : en Pages : 331
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"As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent figure in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as trees of a size never imagined, floods, fires, wolves, bears, even an earthquake, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments."--Dust jacket.
Author: Robert M. Taylor Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 186
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The essays and annotations in this publication provide an opportunity for citizens and students to consider not only the history of the Northwest Ordinance but also basic and enduring issues in U.S. political life. The book is divided into three main parts. The first part provides a background to the Ordinance and its passage by the Confederation Congress. In the lead essay, Andrew Cayton discusses the Ordinance from the perspective of the Indians, Anglo-Americans, and French, who lived on the frontier. In an accompanying essay Robert M. Taylor, Jr. introduces the relatively unknown men who voted on the Ordinance legislation in the Confederation Congress. The second part of the book comprises commentaries on specific sections and articles of the Ordinance itself. In the third part of the book Patrick Furlong discusses the transformation of a paper plan into a functioning government. He details the resulting problems and delays, the strife among officials, the divisions of the territory, and the quests for statehood. This volume also includes a chronology of events, a 66-item selected bibliography, illustrations, and a series of maps, all related to the Northwest Ordinance and the Northwest Territory. (SM)
Author: Gregory Ablavsky Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190905697 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 361
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Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Tennessee and Ohio: although these new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power.
Author: Peter S. Onuf
Author: Peter S. Onuf
Author: Frederick D. Williams
Author: David G. McCullough
Author: United States. National Park Service
Author: Harlow Lindley
Author: Jay Amos Barrett
Author: Jay Amos Barrett
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Author: Robert M. Taylor
Author: Gregory Ablavsky