Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Question 1

Discussion on

Answer 1

Slavery in the northwest territory

Question 2

Jefferson opposed

Answer 2

Slavery being introduced to a place that didn’t already have slaves

Question 3

The ordinance

Answer 3

Stopped the spread of slavery
Did nothing for places where slavery already was

Question 4

Congress decided to

Answer 4

Ban slavery in the new territory (area around the great lakes)

Question 5

Ordinance agreed on the

Answer 5

Terms of becoming a state rather than a territory

Question 6

Ordinance raised

Answer 6

Tension between north and south over slavery

Question 7

Pro-slavery southerners agreed to this

Answer 7

Because they hoped the new states would be populated by white settlers from the south

Question 8

No conclusive evidence why the south agreed

Answer 8

Some historians believe there was a deal in place
3/5ths Compromise passed the day after the Ordinance was passed

Question 9

Slavery became

Answer 9

A regional question