In What Way Was Anticolonialism Established as a Legacy of the American

question 73

Essay

In what way was anticolonialism established as a legacy of the American Revolution? How,then,did the United States justify its own future territorial expansion? Did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provide a sufficient guarantee that future territories would not become colonies?

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