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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Northwest Ordinance"”.
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A History of the School of Education at the University of Oregon
… good. They shared the view expressed in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that "schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged." But, even though Nathan Dane's prescript was transposed into the territorial government of Oregon, disagreements among educators and among people …
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The Administration of Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory (1787-1802)
With the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787, Congress laid down a series of fundamental principles which were of great significance in the development of the Union and the government of the territories west of the mountains. This document laid the foundation for the American territorial …
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Role of the Indiana township trustee in educational administration, 1895-1959
… government appeared in modified form in the 1785 Northwest Ordinance. The pattern of local government for the states carved from the Northwest Territory was the township unit. Management of all township political affairs, including common schools, became the sole responsibility of an elected …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
… settlers in the Louisiana Purchase and the Old Northwest demanded the right to govern their own domestic institutions. This work charts its development beginning with the earliest debates over the extension of slavery in the territories and traces its place in political discussions until the …