Octavian
Octavian ♂ Usual English form of the Latin name
Octavianus, a derivative of
Octavius. The first Roman emperor, now generally known by the imperial title
Augustus, was born Gaius Octavius; when he was adopted by Julius Caesar he became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. Another Octavianus was a 5th-century Carthaginian saint who was put to death with several thousand companions by the Asiatic Vandal king Hunneric.
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The primary source.(Northwest Territory Ordinance and Act of 1787)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Michigan History Magazine; 1/1/2003; 586 words
; ...The following year, Congress passed an ordinance, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, that proposed...inspiration for Congress to adopt the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Both of these acts had a profound impact...
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The Confederation Congress and the Creation of the American Trans-Appalachian Settlement Policy, 1783-1787.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 501 words
; ...Appalachian settlement policy, 1783-1787. Allen, Michael. Edwin Mellen...in the Virginia Cession and the Ordinance of 1784, the new ideas about Indian...Negotiations, and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. He also provides an epilogue...
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Underground Railroad Started 1787
Newspaper article from: Tennessee TRIBUNE, The; 5/26/2005; 700+ words
; ...anti-slavery. Northwest Ordinance -- Abolished Slavery in what was to be 5 states in 1787, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois...Wisconsin. On July 13, 1787 Arthur St. Clair's Confederation...years of long debate, "an Ordinance for the government of the...
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CELEBRATING 221ST ANNIVERSARY OF NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/10/2008; 541 words
; ...Years of Unsettled Borders: Indiana and the Northwest Ordinance." Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard invites the public...Indiana's borders as established by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This year's program concentrates on Indiana's...
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TRAVELING EXHIBIT TRACES INDIANA BACK TO 1787
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 8/11/1991; 465 words
; ...traces the roots of Indiana back to 1787, when it was encompassed within...issues involved in the Northwest Ordinance. The ordinance outlined the stages of government...and graphs, three areas of the ordinance: statehood, boundaries and rights...
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Bold Northwest Ordinance: It's also 200 yrs. old
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/15/1988; ; 566 words
; ...the Midwest is, too. It is the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, which provided for government...Washington University. The Big Ten. The 1787 Ordinance's third article states...holds some of it. Boosterism. The 1787 Ordinance was approved of by a big...
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100 Documents.(historic documents)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 9/22/2003; 700+ words
; ...independent nation. 7 VIRGINIA PLAN, 1787 Drafted by James Madison, it proposes...executive, and judicial. 8 NORTHWEST ORDINANCE, 1787 Lays the groundwork for westward...Mississippi. 9 U.S. CONSTITUTION, 1787 Drafted in secret, it creates a...
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From Thirteen Colonies to These United States
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/17/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...The most important piece of legislation enacted by "the United States in Congress Assembled" was the Northwest Ordinance (1787), which established a coherent plan for settling and governing the West. The very existence of the Congress was...
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On the character of Generation X.
Magazine article from: Public Interest; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...all the subjects an attendance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid." Likewise, the Northwest Ordinance (1787) declared: "Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind...
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Building An 'Empire Of Liberty'.(expansion of the U.S.)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...genius of American government," says John Mack Faragher, a history professor at Yale University. The Northwest Ordinance (1787) created what would become Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The beauty of the document was...
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Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...approved on July 13, 1787, organized the "Territory...territories long after 1787. Considered one of...Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance ranks with the Declaration...passed three separate ordinances for territorial governance...principle author of the Ordinance of 1784, written ...
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Ordinance of 1787
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ordinance of 1787 adopted by the Congress of Confederation...and is frequently called the Northwest Ordinance. It was based on the ordinance of 1784...ordinance, which was passed July 13, 1787. It set up a government in the region...
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Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...ORDINANCES OF 1784, 1785, AND 1787 ORDINANCES OF 1784, 1785, AND 1787. In a series of ordinances enacted between 1784 and 1787, the Confederation Congress established...formed into new states. The first ordinance for territorial government, approved...
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Land Ordinance of 1785
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...second of three land ordinances passed by the Confederation...1783). The three ordinances, which included the Ordinance of 1784 and the Northwest Ordinance (1787), were meant to manage...interesting sidelight to the Ordinances was the way that they...nation. The third ...
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Northwest Ordinance
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Northwest Ordinance (1787), a measure adopted by the Continental...Constitution , Congress reenacted the ordinance with minor modifications. When the...more specific plan of governance. The 1787 Ordinance set forth this plan. It called...
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