Old Northwest

British  

noun

1. (in the early US) the land between the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and the Ohio River. Awarded to the US in 1783, it was organized into the Northwest Territory in 1787 and now forms the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and part of Minnesota See also Northwest Territory

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Example Sentences

The territories that Americans later called the Old Northwest and the Old Southwest filled rapidly, for the census counted fewer than 110,000 people west of the mountains in 1790 but nearly 2 million in 1820.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Americans also sought new lives across the Appalachian Mountains and created new communities on the frontier territories of the Old Northwest and Old Southwest.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Furthermore, the farms of New England, the Mid- Atlantic, the Old Northwest, and the prairie states supplied Northern civilians and Union troops with abundant food throughout the war.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Having grown up in the woods of the Old Northwest, he was an avid outdoorsman, and spent much of his leisure time hunting and fishing at his newly acquired game preserve, Water Babble.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

The States of the Old Northwest gave to McKinley a plurality of over 367,000 out of a total vote of about 3,734,000.

From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson