Further cessions from states were expected, and various founding-era figures hoped to acquire additional territory ranging from Canada to Cuba. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 promised that the ...

David McCullough is best known to most readers for his popular biographies of some of the most prominent names in American history — Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John Adams and the ...

Slavery persisted in the Northwest Territory for decades ... a group that, beginning in 1787, settled just north of the Ohio River. The Rev. Manasseh Cutler was a Massachusetts polymath who ...

The Indiana State Seal has a convoluted history. With the creation of the Northwest Territory in 1787, the seal depicted a coiled snake in the foreground, boats in the mid-ground, a rising sun ...

The Daviess County Museum will host author and speaker Richard Day for a presentation on the historical significance of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 1 ...

According to the National Archives, Ohio was once part of the Northwest Territory, established in 1787 by Congress. The former territory was also made up of land that would eventually become ...

The Northwest Territory would eventually become Ohio ... Also Fort Steuben, which claims February 1787, but the original ...