ARP336 Planning the Northwest Territory

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Continental Congress, eager to begin settling western lands, forces native tribes to sign the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785) and Fort Finney (1786) to relinquish claims to large portions of land in what is today the state of Ohio. Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 to define exactly how blocks of this land would be transferred to private parties, either through veterans' grants, or through sales. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary, by Louis Potts (borrow on archive.org). Online Recommendation of the Week: The Land Ordinance of 1785: A Bicentennial Review: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27790853 Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.5	This week, episode 336, planning the Northwest Territory.
0:53.6	As we've covered in recent episodes, with the war over,
0:57.3	the United States focused on its western lands. Real estate was the number one asset of the new
1:03.2	country and desperately needed to pay down its war debts. Congress had also made promises of
1:09.1	land grants to soldiers during the war and hoped to use
1:13.0	these western lands to make good on its promises to those veterans. The treaty of Paris gave the
1:19.0	United States undisputed control of all the land east of the Mississippi River, all the way from
1:24.9	the Great Lakes down to the Gulf of Mexico. That treaty, however,
1:29.0	was between the U.S. and Britain. It did not address the claims of Native Americans who were
1:34.2	actually living on that land. In order for American settlers to take possession of that land,
1:40.1	there would have to be some sort of understanding with the existing claimants to that land.
1:45.5	One of the first areas that the U.S. hoped to settle was the area west of Fort Pitt,
1:51.5	which is modern-day state of Ohio.
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