id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lom5u54porfwjhuj2il4ixh7ia J. H. Madison Extending Liberty Westward: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 1987 16 .pdf application/pdf 2288 188 59 TITLE Extending Liberty Westward: The Northwest Ordinance IDENTIFIERS Bicentennial; *Indiana; *Northwest Ordinance 1787; from control by national government to full and equal statehood, The Northwest Ordinance aroused conflict in Indiana and states' rights, representative government, western expansion, and Indiana, and on December 11, 1816, President James Madison approved over slavery by making Indiana a free state. For the frontier West especially, including pioneer Indiana, The immediate purpose of the Northwest Ordinance was to provide for government in the largely unsettled lands The application of the Ordinance to Indiana's early history transition to the second, semi-representative stage as promised in the Ordinance. Washington that their Indiana government had a "monarchal shape." Harrison The leader of Indiana's pro-statehood faction was Jonathan Jennings. Harrison, men eager for statehood, Indiana now had a full voice in the national government, including the vote that was determined to deny representative government and democracy on Indiana's frontier. ./cache/work_lom5u54porfwjhuj2il4ixh7ia.pdf ./txt/work_lom5u54porfwjhuj2il4ixh7ia.txt