The Educational Significance of the Early Federal Land Ordinances (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Educational Significance of the Early Federal Land OrdinancesIn 1774 Washington tried to form a company to develop the connection between the Potomac and Ohio rivers.3 At that time, the city of Baltimore opposed the plan because it was feared that it would divert the western trade from Baltimore. Before this plan took any definite shape the war began and the scheme was abandoned for about ten years. With the surrender of claims to the western lands by the various states, especially the Virginia land cession of March I, 1784, interest in opening an easy path for travel from tide-water to the Ohio country was re vived. Two of the terms of this cession are of special importance.' One is the provision that these lands should be laid out into states, which should be admitted to the Union on equal terms with the original states. The other is the provision which reserved land for the soldiers who had conquered the Northwest. Undoubtedly, both of these provisions had their in¿uence in the subsequent legislation with reference to the political development of the West and in the solution of the problem of paying the soldiers of the Revolution.The fundamental problem at this time, however, was an eco nomic one, in so far as the relation of the western country to the Union was concerned. It was generally felt that before any plan of political organization of the West could be put into operation it was necessary to bind the back-country to the sea-board by economic ties. Certainly the national leaders were aware of this necessity. In the same month that Virginia ceded her west ern lands to the Union Je¿erson and Washington were in cor respondence concerning the development of a water connection by way of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. Thus was Washing ton's plan of 1774 revived.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.