jan 1, 1784 - Jeffersons's Ordinance
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Called for the land in the recently created United States of America (west of the Appalichian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River) to be divided into 10 new states, each to be admitted ito the Union as soon as it had a population equal to that of the leat populated state of the Confederation.
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