they were different by the Northwest Ordinance was were the Northwest territory was wanting to be governed and the land ordinance of 1785 was were it called for surveyors to stake out 6mile-plots, called townships, in the Western lands.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 stated that they would separate the Northwest land into something called TOWNSHIPS. This was a 5 by 5 mile land and was sold to settlers and speculators. The land ordinance...
I'm taking HIST 123 this semester, which is US history to 1877, and my text book by Tindall & Shi says that it mostly favored land speculators, because the common people didn't have the money to...