... key flaws that eventually led to their eradication, some sections of the document were effectively written. The most evident of those successes was their ability to deal with western lands. When the Articles of Confederation were adopted, a massive debate raged about the issue of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.7 Many states had claims in the frontier west, some of them overlapping and causing dispute.8 States with ... it is still in use today.11 Congress further enhanced the issue of frontier lands by passing two important land acts: the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest O...

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... it on May 20th of that year. This ordinance stated that the territories between the Appalachians and the Mississippi were to be divided into square townships six miles on a side. These townships were then to be divided into thirty-six sections each being one square mile in size. In order to raise money, the government was to auction off this land for no less than one ... government and one was to be set aside for the purpose of public education (Weinstein, pg. 115). Jefferson's plan had its flaws however. The division of the land proved to be inefficient because a great deal of the land...

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... which would be split into thirty-six sections of one square mile each. The sixteenth section for each township was reserved to be sold for the benefit of public schools, setting a model for the public education system in the United States. This land was larger than all of the established states put together, so by selling the land, the weak new government received money that it would not ... independent from the dictatorial rules of England. The Articles of Confederation both reflected the ideals and philosophies of the American Revolution while highlighting the realistic intricacy of d...

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