The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . y Great Britain afterthe close of the French and Indian War as Crown lands, 1 The establishment of the new government was an act of revolution for thereason that provision was made that it should go into effect without the ap-proval of two states. The convention of 1787 had no authority to provide themeans of setting aside the Articles of Confederation except by the unanimous con-sent of the states in the confederation. TUE FORMATION OF A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 187 exclusively for the Indians, and the American colonists wereforb
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The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . y Great Britain afterthe close of the French and Indian War as Crown lands, 1 The establishment of the new government was an act of revolution for thereason that provision was made that it should go into effect without the ap-proval of two states. The convention of 1787 had no authority to provide themeans of setting aside the Articles of Confederation except by the unanimous con-sent of the states in the confederation. TUE FORMATION OF A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 187 exclusively for the Indians, and the American colonists wereforbidden to occupy it. During the War of the Revolution, how-ever, Virginia troops under George Rogers Clark took possessionof it, and it was therefore held by right of conquest.^ At first the greater part of the territory was claimed by Vir-ginia under her original charter; Massachusetts andConnecticut also claimed, under their charters, someportion of the region; and New York, by reason oftreaties made with the Indians, laid claim to a very large tract. Landcessions. • Fort Washington in 1789. This fort, built for the protection of settlers in the Northwest Territory, was the beginning of Cincinnati. Each of the other states demanded some of this land, and stronglyresisted the claims of the four states. The four states finally(1781-1786) agreed to surrender their claims to the general govern-ment, on a pledge from the Congress of the Confederation thatthe lands should be formed into states, which should becomemembers of the union, and have the same rights as the otherstates. The Ordinance of 1787. — Emigrants from the states settled inthe fertile lands of the Northwest Territory in increasing numbers 1 See page 162. 188 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION from year to year. The Congress planned a form of governmentfor this territory which, for the greater part, is still used ingoverning the territories of the United States. This plan ofgovernment was set forth in an ordinance p