Answer: C. Each new state created from the
territory could determine its own level of
religious freedom.
The Northwest Ordinance (1787) created a new
government for the Northwest Territory. It also
outlined a plan that was later used for the
country to expand to the Pacific.
The text had three main provisions: the division
of the Northwest Territory into not less than
three nor more than five states, a method for
admitting a new state to the Union, and a bill of
rights protecting religious freedom, habeas
corpus, trial by jury, and other individual rights.