Endowment of public lands for educational purposes was a practice established by the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

The Northwest Ordinance laid out the conditions for the development and creation of states from the territory.

In the 18th century, the Northwest Ordinance set aside public land for primary schools.

Ohio courts have noted that the Northwest Ordinance "was ever considered as the fundamental law of the territory."

The Northwest Ordinance laid out the conditions for the creation of a state from a territory.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the best known of the three.

Under the Northwest Ordinance, areas of the territory could be defined and admitted as states once their population reached 60,000.

While not passed at the time, many of these became part of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

The first settlement under the Northwest Ordinance was at Marietta, in 1788.

The following year he lent his support to the Northwest Ordinance that completed the national resolution of these issues.