Why was the Land Ordinance of 1785 considered a strength of the Articles of Confederation? It identified the need for supporting farmers in the new nation and created a new way of collecting taxes on farms.
It helped unify new Americans with their original enemies, the British occupants in the North
It reinstated the Proclamation of 1763 by returning land west of the Appalachians to American Indians.
It created a way to sell and settle the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River