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how did the land ordinance provide an organized development of the new land in the northwest territory?

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Answer: Its called for dividing the territory into gridded townships so that once the lands were surveyed, they could be sold to individuals and speculative land companies.

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It would provide both a new source of federal government revenue and an orderly pattern for

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