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| Description: The Land Ordinance of 1785 called for surveying and dividing the Western Territories into square mile subdivisions—640 acres. These were further subdivided and sold as forty-acre tracts. Few pieces of legislation have left a more visible imprint upon the landscape. Today’s Midwest, as seen from an airplane, resembles a patchwork quilt of forty-acre squares, as in the section of Kansas shown here.
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