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• What is the difference between PUSH and PULL factors?
• Give ONE example of EACH.
THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 17871787
THE NORTHWEST THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCEORDINANCE
• Essential Question:
– What causes people to move or migrate from one place to another?
• Learning Targets:
– Discuss the push and pull factors of migration in the U.S.
– Explain how push and pull factors impact migration.
• POU (I’ll know I’ve got it when…)
– I can explain the push and pull factors that brought settlers to the Northwest Territory.
TODAY’S INSTRUCTIONS
• Using your iPads, download today’s PowerPoint from the WebDAV. USE KEYNOTE.
• https://lgmx.dpsnc.net/go– 8th Grade– Mr. Lasseter– <<< From Mr. Lasseter– Northwest Ordinance.ppt
• Use the PowerPoint to complete your notes and answer questions today.
THE NORTHWEST THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCEORDINANCE
Problem:Many states made claims to the western lands (Northwest Territory).
THE NORTHWEST THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCEORDINANCE
Solution to the Problem:All states agreed to cede (give) their claims to Congress, so Congress can sell the land for the good of the country.
Boundaries of the Northwest Territory: Great Lakes (north), Pennsylvania (east), Ohio River (south), Mississippi River (west)
Dividing the LandDividing the Land
LAND ORDINANCE OF 1785: Congress’s plan to sell the land of the Northwest Territory.
A. Rectangular Survey System – carefully surveyed the land into squares to be sold.
Dividing the LandDividing the Land
1. Township – the largest division of land. It is thirty-six square miles.
Dividing the LandDividing the Land
2. Section – 36 sections in a township. It is one square mile or 640 acres.
Dividing the LandDividing the Land
Acre – the smallest division of land. It sold for $1 per acre.
The average size farm was 40 acres. So, it sold for $40.
EducationEducationEducation
One section of each township is reserved for education. The goal is to start a school for each township.
THE NORTHWEST THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787ORDINANCE of 1787
This document establishes…This document establishes…
the rules and procedures for the expansion of the United States.
The Steps to StatehoodThe Steps to Statehood
1. When the population reaches 5,000 adult males the area can:
a. elect it’s own legislature.
b. send non-voting members to U.S. Congress.
The Steps to StatehoodThe Steps to Statehood
2. When the population reaches 60,000 adult males the area can:
a. can write a state constitution and apply for statehood.
b. If Congress approves the state Constitution that area will become a state.
THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 17871787
Created Five States:
Indiana (1816)Ohio (1803)
Illinois (1818)
Michigan (1837)
Wisconsin (1848)
THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 17871787
Rights Guaranteed:1. Trial by jury
2. Public education
3. Freedom of religion
4. Outlawed slavery in the new states!
Why would people move Why would people move west?west?
• Overcrowded cities– Cities in the eastern U.S. continued to grow, and the
conditions were not always good
• Land– As the population grew, good land for farming was
harder to find
– Land also became more expensive since there was less available