Question 3 (7 points) Put the following features in order from the westernmost feature to the easternmost feature within the Middle East. (The
westernmost feature will be in spot number 1 and the easternmost feature will be in spot number 2)
*Remember that you need to click and drag to reorder your answers.
1. Zagros Mountains
2. Euphrates River
13. Atlas Mountains
14. Dead Sea
15. Suez Canal
16. Nile River
7. Tigris River

The Confederation Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to encourage western migration. Powerful land companies made western expansion a business venture. Speculators purchased cheap lands that they hoped to sell at a high profit. To lure settlers, territorial leaders developed a political framework to protect liberty and property. They secured for settlers in the West religious freedom, protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and a government unable to seize land for the public good without first offering the owner just compensation. The Ordinance of 1787 also prohibited slavery. However, its framers compromised with slaveholders when they  approved a fugitive slave law to force the return of runaway slaves. A controversy surfaced over how to apply Article 6, which both banned and enforced slavery. Leaders in the territory, however, successfully made the article a gradual emancipation law. The Northwest Territory is appropriate for studying American history at the national and state level and for examining critical issues in civics and government.

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