alleryStart learning →Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, how many free inhabitants did a territory need for statehood?
AFive thousand
BTen thousand
CSix thousand
DSixty thousand
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Sixty thousand
1. The Ordinance let the Northwest Territory be divided into no more than five and no fewer than three states.
2. At five thousand male inhabitants of voting age a territory gained a two chamber legislature.
3. Statehood came at a higher mark than that.
4. Whenever a prospective state had sixty thousand free inhabitants it was to be admitted to the Union.
5. It entered on an equal footing with the original states in all respects.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section PROBLEMS CONFRONT THE NEW NATION_
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