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What actions did the national government take to organize and govern the country's western lands?

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The Land Ordinance of 1785 made land cheap and affordable. The Land Ordinance established an orderly plan for dividing up the land. The government would first survey the land and divide it into townships. ... Further, each township would be divided into 36 sections of 1 square mile, or about 640 acres, each.
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