Northwest Territory

American  

noun

1. the region north of the Ohio River, organized by Congress in 1787, comprising present-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the eastern part of Minnesota.

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Northwest Territory British  

noun

1. See Old Northwest

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Example Sentences

The Lincoln-Douglas debates appear as a struggle over Black civil rights and citizenship in the old Northwest Territory, one precipitated by the Black codes and the civil rights movement they triggered.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2021

But no amount of success, patriotism or pride could protect these African-American pioneers, for these anti-immigration laws were a backlash against a rising and increasingly successful population of propertied African-Americans across the Northwest Territory states.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2019

McCullough tells the story of a group of New Englanders, led by The Rev. Manasseh Cutler, who in the late 18th century ventured into the Northwest Territory - now Ohio - to create communities.

From Washington Times • May 15, 2019

The map of the 1787 Northwest Territory shows how the public domain was to be divided by the national government for sale.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

This bill virtually contained the Thompson amendment in the proviso that all the restrictions in the Ordinance of 1787, in regard to the Northwest Territory, should apply to Oregon.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William