U.S. Constitution, Article 4, Section 3. New States may be admitted by Congress into
this Union; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any
other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of
States, without the consent of the legislature of the states concerned as well as of the
Congress. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and
regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States....
NW Ordinance, Article 5. And, whenever any of the said States shall have sixty
thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into
the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all
respects whatever,
Based on the 2 excerpts above, identify the topic in which the Northwest Ordinance set
a precedent that was followed by the U.S. Constitution.
O rules for a territory becoming a state
O freedom of religion
O
republican(representative) form of government
O federal support of education institutions