What Was the Significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

question 39

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for African Americans?

• A) It had almost no effect, since huge numbers of slaves continued to live under slavery until the Civil War.
• B) The ordinance set a precedent for limiting where slavery could and could not exist.
• C) It demonstrated that the Articles of Confederation government had significant amounts of power in many areas.
• D) It banned the slave trade, but not slavery, from the territory.

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