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WHAT DID THE LAW ORDINANCE OF 1785 DID FOR THE NEWLY UNITED STATES?

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The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. ... The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act of 1862.

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