Question 1
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
A) Slavery was prohibited.
B) New states would have equal footing with the original ones.
C) Western territories were granted immediate self-government.
D) Free white males were guaranteed citizenship.
Question 2
Had Jefferson's original Government for the Western Territory plan been followed:
A) land would have been given away to settlers.
B) Virginia would have controlled a vast colony in the west.
C) slavery would have been made legal in the west.
D) Indians would have been made citizens and retained their lands.
Question 3
Thomas Jefferson's Government of the Western Territory was an attempt to create a:
A) republican policy for western expansion.
B) haven for freed slaves.
C) haven for Indians who had been American allies.
D) series of forts and defenses against the British and Spanish.
Thomas Bewick
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