What provided the basis for governing western lands and developing them into states?

The answer is the Northwest ordinance for they were able to provide the basis for governing westernlands and having them to be converted and to be developed in to states. They have gathered 5000 adults males in an assembly and have a total of 60,000 in an equivalent to a state. They were all in the area of the Illinois, Wicsonin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.

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when people started to question traditional christian beliefs, they became criminals in the eyes of the church: they were accused of heresy and then, executed. the church held unbelievable power and anyone who tried to defy it or its beliefs, was demonized and persecuted.

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