![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after, a group of pioneers, most of them Puritans from New England, set out to establish the first U.S. That ordinance, championed by Massachusetts minister Manasseh Cutler, also set three sweeping conditions for the territory: religious liberty, free universal education and the prohibition of slavery. ![]() With the passage of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787, Congress opened up this swath of wilderness for cheap to compensate underpaid Revolutionary War veterans. In the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War, Great Britain handed the newly minted United States a huge package of land-a region that includes the current states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. But his new book centers on five men many people have never heard of: the pioneers who settled what was known as the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. David McCullough, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Smithsonian contributor, is known for writing about some of the most famous Americans, including presidents John Adams and Harry Truman. ![]()
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