Northwest Ordinance
Subtitle: Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781476665191
Subjects: United states, politics and government
Description: "Because of the the Northwest Ordinance, passed by Congress in July 1787, the western lands acquired from Great Britain were divided into slave and free states, a compromise which precipitated the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary letters and documents, this detailed analysis re-examines the Ordinance and how Congress silently permitted the South's "peculiar institution" to move westward"--