"the sweet old lady increases her rocking pace in childlike excitement" is this figurative language? if not, what could i substitute it for?

This is a metaphor.

Why?

Because the old lady's rocking pace is being compared to a childlike excitement. If the creator of the sentence had used like or as, this would have been a simile.

The answer is it organized land into districts. territories, and states.this ordinance created by thomas jefferson established a set of guidelines and procedures for a territory wanting to apply to be a state in the union. it also ensured that these territories in the northwest would not be slave states.

One is experience and one is not and then criminal is like who rob someone in there house and justice system trouble race because one is experience and one is not that what i think