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The NORTHWEST ORDINANCE

was important to the development and
growth of the United States because...

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it established the pattern according to which the West would be settled by the citizens of United States.

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This document was passed in 1787 and it had large importance on the process of creating states and admitting them to United States. According to it, each state had to have at least 60,000 inhabitants, and rules were established so that settlement was done in a peaceful manner.

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