For each item listed, identify whether it was a provision of the Land Ordinance of 1785 or the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Banned slavery
Reserved a section of land for public schools
Divided land into townships
Placed a territory under a governor appointed by congress
Declared that states entered the union with
equal status as existing states

Northwest Ordinances, also called Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787, several ordinances enacted by the U.S. Congress for the purpose of establishing orderly and equitable procedures for the settlement and political incorporation of the Northwest Territory—i.e., that part of the American frontier lying west of Pennsylvania, north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes; this is generally the area known today as the American Midwest.

Explanation:

Until about 1780 the lands of the Northwest Territory were claimed by several existing states, including New York and Virginia. Those states soon ceded their territorial holdings to the central government (with the exception of Connecticut, which maintained its claim to the Western Reserve along the southern shore of Lake Erie in what is northeastern Ohio), and, by the time the American Revolution ended in 1783, specific measures were needed to guide the settlement and division of the Northwest Territory.

The Ordinance of 1784, drafted by Thomas Jefferson and passed by Congress (April 23, 1784), divided the territory into a handful of self-governing districts. It stipulated that each district could send one representative to Congress upon its attaining a population of 20,000, and it would become eligible for statehood when its population equaled that of the least-populous existing state. (This ordinance was superseded by the Ordinance of 1787.)

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