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DO NOW. What is the difference between PUSH and PULL factors? Give ONE example of EACH. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE. Essential Question: What causes people to move or migrate from one place to another? Learning Targets:

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  1. DO NOW • What is the difference between PUSH and PULL factors? • Give ONE example of EACH.

  2. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787

  3. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE • Essential Question: • What causes people to move or migrate from one place to another? • Learning Targets: • Discuss the push and pull factors of migration in the U.S. • Explain how push and pull factors impact migration. • POU (I’ll know I’ve got it when…) • I can explain the push and pull factors that brought settlers to the Northwest Territory.

  4. TODAY’S INSTRUCTIONS • Using your iPads, download today’s PowerPoint from the WebDAV. USE KEYNOTE. • https://lgmx.dpsnc.net/go • 8th Grade • Mr. Lasseter • <<< From Mr. Lasseter • Northwest Ordinance.ppt • Use the PowerPoint to complete your notes and answer questions today.

  5. Problem: Many states made claims to the western lands (Northwest Territory). THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE

  6. Solution to the Problem: All states agreed to cede (give) their claims to Congress, so Congress can sell the land for the good of the country. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE • Boundaries of the Northwest Territory:Great Lakes (north), Pennsylvania (east), Ohio River (south), Mississippi River (west)

  7. Dividing the Land LAND ORDINANCE OF 1785:Congress’s plan to sell the land of the Northwest Territory. • Rectangular Survey System –carefully surveyed the land into squares to be sold.

  8. Dividing the Land • Township –the largest division of land. It is thirty-six square miles. Township 6 MILES

  9. Dividing the Land • Section –36 sections in a township. It is one square mile or 640 acres. Section

  10. Dividing the Land Acre –the smallest division of land. It sold for $1 per acre. The average size farmwas 40 acres. So, it sold for $40. Notre Dame Irish ACRE

  11. Education One section of each township is reserved for education. The goal is to start a school for each township. Education

  12. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787 This document establishes… • the rules and procedures for the expansion of the United States.

  13. The Steps to Statehood • When the population reaches 5,000 adult males the area can: • elect it’s own legislature. • send non-voting members to U.S. Congress.

  14. The Steps to Statehood • When the population reaches 60,000 adult males the area can: • can write a state constitution and apply for statehood. • If Congress approves the state Constitution that area will become a state.

  15. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787 Minnesota Ohio (1803) Created Five States: Indiana (1816) Michigan Wisconsin Illinois (1818) Michigan (1837) Illinois Ohio Wisconsin (1848) Indiana

  16. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE of 1787 Rights Guaranteed: • Trial by jury • Public education • Freedom of religion • Outlawed slavery in the new states!

  17. Why would people move west? • Overcrowded cities • Cities in the eastern U.S. continued to grow, and the conditions were not always good • Land • As the population grew, good land for farming was harder to find • Land also became more expensive since there was less available

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