The Northwest Ordinance: Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land

by Robert Alexander

Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. That summer, the Constitutional Convention drafted the defining document of the American Republic as a whole. A bargain struck between Congress and the Convention outlawed slavery north of the Ohio, but gave Southern states a Congressional and Electoral College representation based on population figures that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476665192
• ISBN13: 9781476665191
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher