Seminar

Westward Expansion and the Northwest Ordinance

Date

December 2, 2006

Speaker

Dr. Andrew Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University

Description

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established the colonial policy of the United States, more specifically the procedures by which an area might be admitted to the Union on an equal basis with the original thirteen states.

We'll look at the origins of this policy in the eighteenth-century context as well as the ways in which it was worked out in the first state admitted under the ordinance, Ohio. The history of Ohio from territory to state models the history of subsequent areas that became American states so our discussion will really be about the origins of an American empire.

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Location

2080 Citygate Dr. Columbus, OH 43219 [view map]