The Northwest Ordinance: Essays on its Formulation, Provisions, and Legacy

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A Adams, John, 26 Adams, John Quincy, 22, 34, 35 Agricultural College of Michigan, 109, 110, 112 Land grant, 111 Origins of, 108 see Michigan Anglicans, 41 Article VI of N.W. Ordinance, 61, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, 71, 73-77, 81, 86 Dane, Nathan, proposed, 67 See slavery, slaves Article III, 16-17, 75-76 Article II, 73 Atlantic states B interests of, 10, 14 Population loss, 31 Bacon, Rev. David, 48 Bailyn, Bernard, 1-2, 4 Baptist Missionary Societies, 43, 50, 54 British influence on N.W. territory, 22, 24-29, 35 Index c Carrington, Edward, 33-34 on Shay's rebellion, 28 Chapman, Ezekiel, 49 Chase, Salmon, 62, 86 Churches, 5-6 and education, 98 see religion Coles, Edward, 62, 86 Colleges Church,102 in Northeast, 98 in South, 98 Private, 99 State, 99 Congregational Church, 40, 50,53 Committee of Missions, 4142 General Association, 41, 49 Missionary Society, 43, 51 New England clergy, 40 Social values and beliefs, 52 Spread to N.W. territory, 42,44 Congress, 1, 9, 12-13, 16, 30, 139 97 debt, 23 money to colleges, 98-99 slavery, 67, 69, 70-71 140 NORTHWEST ORDINANCE Connecticut church of, 40, 43 Connecticut Missionary Society, 43-44, 4748 , 50-51, 53 land claims of, 8 Curriculum in state colleges, 99, 101107 , 109, 113 Cutler, Manassah, 68-71 See Ohio Land Co. o Dane, Nathan, 67, 72 Dartmouth College, 98 de Crevecoeur, Hector St. John, 7 Delaware land claims of 8 E Education F in N.W. Ordinance, 75, 97 private, 99 public commitment, 99, 101 see individual states Fort Mackinac, 22 Franklin, Benjamin, 6 French Revolution, 21 G affect on evangelism in N.W. territory, 44-46 Georgia land claims of, 8 Grayson, William, 68 H Hamtramck, John, 80-81 Harvard College, 98 I Illinois education in, 108-109 Illinois Industrial University, 111 Illinois State University, 110 slavery in, 65 State Normal University, 108-109 Indiana education in, 101, 114 Purdue University, 111, 114 See slavery Indiana University, 102-103 origins of, 101 Indians, 2, 12, 18, 22, 26, 27, 76 Article III, 75 education of, 101 congressional jurisdiction, 15-17 missions to, 48 religious proselytising, 43, 47 state jurisdiction, 16 Inter-denominational cooperation, 43, 44, 54 J Jay, John, 12, 26-28 Jefferson, Thomas, 25 on slavery, 72 Jurisdiction over frontier, 8-9 claims of landed and landless states, 9-12 INDEX 141 K King, Rufus, 31, 72 L Land grants (Morrill Act), 111 Landed states, 9-10 Lee, Henry, 28 Lincoln, Abraham, 62 London Missionary Society, 47-48 M Madison, James, 14, 15, 24 Maryland land claims of, 8, 10 Mason, George, 14-15 Massachusetts church of, 40, 43, 50 land claims of, 8 Methodists, 41, 50, 54 Miami University, 101-102 Michigan Agricultural college, 108 College at Ann Arbor, 105, 107 Colleges in, 104 Michigan State Normal School,108 Missionary Societies Baptist, 43 Congregationalist, 43 Division of N.W. territory, 50 Monroe, James, 27, 32, 68 Morgan, Edmund, 1 Morrill Act, 97, 111, 113, 114 Morris, Gouverneur, 14, 25, 27 N Nash, Gary, 2 New Jersey land claims of, 8 New York land claims of, 8, 9, 11 North Carolina land claims of, 8 Northwest Ordinance education, 12, 97, 114 land sales, 68 political organization, 12 religion, 39, 97 slavery, 12, 62, 73, 74, 78 Northwest territory o colonial control debate, 30-33 creation (of, 11, 12, 23 geography of, 21, 63 organization, of 3 political rights, 6, 14, 15 spread of religion to, 40-41 strategic necessity, 29, 35 Ohio education in, 101-102, 114 Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, 111 Ohio Land Co., 68, 99 see Cutler, Manassah Ohio Land Sales, 68, 70, 72 Ohio University, 101 p Pennsylvania emancipation statute of, 77 land claims of, 8 Presbyterians, 41 Property vs. liberty, 65, 73, 77, 79, 80 Protestantism, 47 R Religion and social order, 50-52 142 NORTHWEST ORDINANCE Anglican, 41 Congregationalist, 40-41 in NW ordinance, 97 Methodist, 41 Presbyterian, 41 see also Churches and individual religions Rhode Island delegate report, 23 land claims of, 8 Rutledge, Edward, 28 s St. Clair, Governor, 80, 81, 83,84 Schuyler, Phillip, 10, 17, 18 Second Great Awakening, 53 Settlers allegiance of, 23-25 attraction of N.W. ordinance to, 33-35 ethnic breakdown of, 4, 24 migration of, 4, 5, 13, 31, 42 religious migration, 41 religious ministration to, 44, 50-51 Shay's rebellion, 23...