Old Northwest

noun

See Northwest Territory
(in the early US) the land between the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and the Ohio River. Awarded to the US in 1783, it was organized into the Northwest Territory in 1787 and now forms the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and part of Minnesota See also Northwest Territory

It marked the beginning of a lasting peace, which opened the "Old Northwest" to the white settler.

Nearly ten thousand miles had been built in the Old Northwest alone in the ten preceding years.

Certain it is that the leaders of the silver movement came from the native element furnished by the Old Northwest.

Although not politically a part of the Old Northwest, in history she is closely related to that region.

She thus has a smaller percentage of native population than any other of the States formed from the Old Northwest.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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