How a Territory Becomes a State

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  1. Plots assigned for schools, mining, sale or veteran soldiers. Land ownership recorded into deeds.
  2. Northwest Territory states ban slavery but allow fugitive slaves to be captured and returned to owners.
  3. Articles of Confederation guarantee residents religious, civil, political, legal and educational liberties.
  4. Land ownership is officially granted to a proprietor, whose family inherits the estate.
  5. Surveyor maps land west of the Appalachian and divides it into 6-by-6-square mile townships.
  6. Local democratic government administers laws and justice, and promote township’s common good.
  7. Territories applied for statehood once population was 60,000.
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