1787 Vs Colonialism

The Ordinance of 1787 vs. Colonialism With the end of the Revolutionary War, the thought of the old colonial way of life still disturbed many Americans. The people had just gained sovereignty, and many saw the dangers of expanding into an empire just like the British. Although everyone knew that having colonies was dangerous, America needed to expand it’s territory one way or another. Not many people who experienced life before the revolution would accept the colonization of new land, so the government made a system to transform their territories into separate states. If the federal government simply set up colonies west of the Appalachians, there would be several territories with no self-governing system and no way to rely on themselves. They would be under complete control of the federal government, and the federal government didn’t have any money to spend taking care of colonies didn’t even have the power to tax. States, on the other hand, had their own governor, judges, legislators, taxes, and commerce. America needed land, but would only be able to justify it by turning that land into true states of the Union.
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There was the possibility of some territories never meeting the population requirement, not accepting the outlaw of slavery, or any other reason to not become a state; but they would just remain territories. One thing that may have deterred territories from applying for statehood was the fact that slavery was outlawed in all new states. The South still relied heavily on slave labor for many crops including cotton and tobacco, and Southerners didn’t agree with the antislavery that Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the writers wanted. In fact, slavery was still practiced in the territories of the Northwest Ordinance up until those territories became states and slavery became

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