Land+Ordinance+of+1785

=Land Ordiance of 1785= toc

Whats up
The land was ceated in congres s on May twentieth 1785. Congress was already in debt, and it knew that it could'nt raise taxes so congress decided to raise prices on things. The Land Ordinance of 1785 was "replaced" by the Homestead act in 1862. The man who origionally came up with this was a man named Thomas Hutchins.

The Beginning
This document was created in May 1785. This was meant to save the country in its time of need. Our country was already in debt all the way back then, because of the revolutionary war. Our country had borrowed money and weapons from the French in that war so they were in a tremendous ammount of debt. The proposal to this delima was the Land Ordinance of 1785 to raise the price of everything so people would pay more, and a percentage of that sale would go to the government.

What's happening
The states that first suggested the land ordinance were Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The land ordinance was only created to raise the taxes on land to pay off the debt to several different countries. The land ordinance of 1784 taxes were only raised to the west of the appalachian mountains, but the country did not agree with this. This was also for north of the Ohio river, and east of the Mississippi river.

The End of it all
The country decided this was not an accurate way to pay off the countries debt so they decided to replace it with the homestead act. The homestead act was where the country decided to take 160 acres outside of the thirteen colonies. The only thing about this was that 160 acres compared to their original 640 acres there is a big difference. The country would not have been able to make as much money so they made some rules about how to take care of their new 160 acres. The first one was file an application, improve the land, and file for the deed of the title. President Abraham Lincoln signed the act on May 20, 1862.