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La Land Ordinance del 1785 fu adottata dal Congresso degli Stati Uniti d'America sotto gli Articoli della Confederazione il 20 maggio 1785. Essa stabiliva un sistema standardizzato con cui i coloni potevano acquistare titoli di proprietà terriera nell'ovest non ancora sviluppato.
The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 addressed political needs. The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act of 1862.
11 feb 2013 · Land Ordinance of 1785 (1785) Congress of the Confederation. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. Enacted 20 May 1785. Source: Library of Congress (beginning on page 2) MAY 20, 1785. An ORDINANCE for ascertaining the Mode of disposing of LANDS in the WESTERN TERRITORY.
24 mar 2024 · The Land Ordinance of 1785 was enacted by the Confederation Congress on May 20, 1785. It established policies and procedures for the orderly survey and settlement of lands purchased from Indian inhabitants in areas of North America ceded by Great Britain to the United States after the Revolutionary War.
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The ordinance was further augmented with the Land Ordinance of 1785, and superseded by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This latter ordinance provided for civil liberties and public education within new territories that would be created north and west of the Ohio river, and banned slavery therein.
Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the American Revolution.
3 giorni fa · The Ordinance of 1785 provided for the scientific surveying of the territory’s lands and for a systematic subdivision of them. Land was to be subdivided according to a rectangular grid system. The basic unit of land grant was the township, which was a square area measuring six miles on each side.
