Northwest Territory

LC control no.	n 84204358
Geographic heading	Northwest Territory *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Territory of the United States, Northwest of the River Ohio Territory of the United States, Northwest of the Ohio Northwest Territory (U.S.) Northwestern Territory
See also	Virginia *Browse this term in* LC Authorities Indiana Territory *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Special note	SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under the subject heading Northwest, Old.
Found in	Its Journal of the Legislative Council of the territory of the United States, northwest of the river Ohio, 1800. OCLC data base, 11/16/84 (OCLC #8262175: hdg.: Northwest Territory (U.S.)) OCLC data base, 11/16/84 (OCLC #1728780: hdg.: Northwest Territory, United States) Galbreath, C.B. Legislature of the Northwestern Territory, 1795. Wikipedia, July 25, 2007 (Indiana Territory was an organized territory of the United States from 1800 to 1816; it was the first new territory created from lands of the Northwest Territory, which had been organized in 1787 by the Northwest Ordinance) Indiana historian, Mar. 1999, via WWW, viewed July 25, 2007: p. 8 (On May 7, 1800, Congress split the Northwest Territory into two sections. The first Indiana Territory included everything west of approximately the western border of present-day Ohio. The large area of present-day Indiana in the southeast--called the gore--remained part of the Northwest Territory)
Not found in	A hornbook of Virginia history, 1983: p. 121 (Prior to 1784 the Commonwealth of Virginia extended west from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, north from the North Carolina line to the Great Lakes; in 1784 Virginia ceded its northwestern lands to the U.S. Congress)