The Continental Congress, eager to begin settling western lands, forces native tribes to sign the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785) and Fort Finney (1786) to relinquish claims to large portions of land in what is today the state of Ohio. Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 to define exactly how blocks of this land would be transferred to private parties, either through veterans' grants, or through sales.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary, by Louis Potts (borrow on archive.org).

Online Recommendation of the Week: The Land Ordinance of 1785: A Bicentennial Review: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27790853

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