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

Elizabeth Turner, the study’s sole author and a geologist at Laurentian University, first discovered the fossils as a graduate student in the ’90s, when working in a remote part of the rugged Mackenzie Mountains that separate the Yukon and the Northwest Territory.

From Science Magazine

Masur’s story begins in the Northwest Territory, where the Continental Congress abolished slavery in 1787.

From Washington Post

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

Established in 1787, the Northwest Territory forbade slavery per the federal Northwest Ordinance.

From Washington Times

In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation adopted the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory, an area corresponding to the present-day Midwest and Upper Midwest.

From Washington Times