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Farmland in the undeveloped west. 6 miles square,subdivided into 36 sections.

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Congress at the time did not have the power to raise income by straight taxation, so land sales provided an important income stream. The Ordinance set up a survey system that eventually covered over three-fourths of the area of the United States

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The government received money from the sections of land that were bought by colonists.

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The Continental Congress, from 1774 to 1789, contained a huge number of deeply religious men. The amount of religion that Congress had in persuading the practice of religion in the new nation improved that  by any future American national government.

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The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the homestead act in 1862. The Land Ordinance established the basis for the Public Land System Survey. The initial surveying was accomplished by Thomas Hutchins.

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It was Thomas Jefferson's plan, about land being divided and sold in the northwest territory.

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The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided and distributed the land it had acquired from Great Britain north and west of the Ohio River

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The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States congress on May 20, 1785.

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The land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River was to be divided into ten separate states.

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In 1785 the Confederation Congress passed an ordinance that set up a process to survey and sell the lands north of the Ohio river. This law caused the land to divide into townships. The Treaty of Paris gave up control of the land north of the Ohio river and west of the Appalachian mts. in 1783.