Polly Strong
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Polly Strong was an enslaved woman in the Northwest Territory, in present-day Indiana. She was born after the Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery. Slavery was prohibited by the Constitution of Indi
Native Americans guiding French Explorers through Indiana, Stories of Indiana, by Maurice Thompson
July 27th,1820 Assignment of errors to the U.S. Supreme Court
First State Capitol building in downtown Corydon, Indiana
Northwest Ordinance
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The Northwest Ordinance, enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. It created the Northwest Territory, the new nation's first organized incor
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Ordinance 2 of 1787
Treaty of Penn with Indians by Benjamin West