Politically, in the four-candidate presidential election of 1860, the states carved out of the Northwest Ordinance voted 53% for Abraham Lincoln and, with more than 50% in each state, he won all ...

The film "The Westward Movement: Settlers Of The Old Northwest Territory" (1962) explores the migration and settlement of the Northwest Territory in the United States following the Revolutionary War.

Canadian territory capital ordered to evacuate due to approaching wildfire. More than 200 wildfires have already burned large regions of the Northwest Territories this summer.

Every quarter-century since 1850, the owners of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 219,442) have marked the anniversary of its founding with long histories of the paper and nostalgic backward looks at ...

The Congress adopted "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio," commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, on July 13, 1787. The Northwest ...

Not long after, the first pioneers set out to the new territory. Manasseh Cutler, citing obligations at home, declined to join the settlers, but his 19-year-old son, Jervis, did.

Finally, in 1787, the Confederation Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, which officially established the territory as an area to be administered by an appointed Governor, while it got chopped ...