Packet 8: Bonus 4

Along with setting aside land for universities, Manasseh Cutler advocated for this law to ban slavery in its jurisdiction. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1787 law that organized townships in areas it authorized to eventually become new states.
ANSWER: Northwest Ordinance [or the Northwest Ordinance of 1787; accept the Ordinance of 1787 or An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio]
[10e] The Northwest Ordinance was one of the few laws to be passed under this otherwise weak and ineffectual governing document that was replaced by the Constitution in 1789.
ANSWER: Articles of Confederation [or Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union]
[10h] The Constitution rescinded the Northwest Ordinance’s anti-slavery provisions at the urging of this South Carolinian, who was the Federalist nominee for president in 1804 and 1808.
ANSWER: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
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