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title: "How did the Northwest Ordinance provide for the country's expansion?"  
description: "How did the Northwest Ordinance provide for the country's expansion?"  
author: "Peterson arnold"  
published: 2018-05-22  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42903/how-did-the-northwest-ordinance-provide-for-the-country-s-expansion  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did the Northwest Ordinance provide for the country's expansion? 

How did the [Northwest Ordinance](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41529/according-to-the-northwest-ordinance-of-1787-a-portion-of-land-sales-went-to-pay-for-what-service) provide for the [country](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2337/vikram-s-the-country-s-first-privately-developed-rocket-will-launch-on-november-15)'s [expansion](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35156/this-famous-arch-contains-the-name-of-the-city-it-is-located-in-and-is-also-known-as-the-jefferson-national-expansion-memorial-in-which-city-is-this-monument-located)? \
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