Thomas Jefferson ... River. Jefferson was put in charge of a committee whose task was to draw up a “Plan for Government of the Western Territory.” They drew up a map dividing the nation ...

If Thomas Jefferson had had his way ... It was superseded by the Ordinance of 1787, which created the Northwest Territory. Kentucky was admitted in 1792 as the first state west of the Appalachian ...

Thomas Jefferson ... lands and nature of the Northwest Territories and find a route to the Pacific. Lewis and Clark shipped to Jefferson samples of nature, including soil, animal skeletons ...

Thomas Jefferson once wrote that ... resolves that served as a model for the famous Northwest Ordinance of 1787. In 1785, Congress appointed Jefferson to succeed Benjamin Franklin as minister ...