HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mississippi Territory, Democratic Republic, Agrarian System
Document Summary
Pays for survey of northwest territory and create a grid system for selling off land. Money went to government / some stayed local to pay for schools on that territory. Creates political system for territories to become full states, in stages. When population increases, territory becomes a state + gains representation in. Significance: territories gained full political sovereignty; states were just as equal (had the same political rights) as the original 13. Migration was common for americans in the early republic. Disliked urbanization and industrialization in cities, national banks. Believed they would lead to disparities in wealth. Believed republican democracy = small family farms in rural cities (agrarian republic) Ownership and access to land was essential to create a moral country. Wanted individuals to play a large role in the way the democracy was run. Jefferson sends monroe to paris to negotiate for the territory (new orleans) Benefit: u. s. would gain access outside of the mississippi.
