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| Northwest Ordinances of 1785 and '87 | Federal laws that produced an orderly settlement plan in the Northwest Territories |
| Northwest Territory | New land bounded by the Ohio River, the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes |
| Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin | States Created from the Northwest Territory |
| Sale of this section provided money for public schools in the territory | Section #16 |
| 4 benefits of Northwest Ordinances | Orderly settlement, clear ownership, No slavery, process by which a territory becomes a state |
| Township | Area 36 square miles which forms the basis of the NW Ordinance plan |
| Basic unit of a township | Section measuring 1 mile square |
| Area of a section | 640 acres |
| Area of a quarter section | 160 acres |
| Homestead Act (1862) | Civil War law which encouraged homesteading on the Great Plains |
| 21 years old or head of household | Minimum age limit for claiming homestead land |
| Citizenship or Naturalization | requirement of claiming homestead land |
| Loyalty provision | Forbade Confederates from claiming newly opened federal land during the civil War |
| Two ways of owning Homesteads | Buying land outright or settling and improving land within 5 years |
| Pioneer Motto | "Making do" |
| Hardships along the frontier | drought, grasshoppers, illness, blizzards |
| Results of Homestead Act | 375,000 settlers on 48 million acres of land |
| Frontier | Land on the edge of white settlement |
| Sodbusters | homesteaders who broke the prairie soil |
| Little "soddies" | Homes made from blocks of prairie sod |
