According to the northwest ordinance, a territory could become a state when it had 5,000 adult males. had 60,000 adult males. voted to outlaw slavery. offered freedom of religion.

Had 60,000 adult males.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 chartered a government for the Northwest Territory. It also provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. It also encouraged education and forbade slavery.

There were three main provisions in the document:

1. A division of the Northwest Territory into no less than three, but no more that five States.

2. Three stages for admitting a new state to the Union:

3. A bill of rights.

60 thou adult males

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.