The Western Ordinances that Thomas Jefferson laid out for the new territory acquired by the U.S. west of the Appalachians, we saw that he had a very orderly, rational, and complete system for how those lands would be settled and developed. In the Market Revolution era, how well did Americans stick by these plans? What challenges did Jefferson not foresee when he was laying out these plans in the 1780s?

The Western Ordinances that Thomas Jefferson laid out for the new territory acquired by the U.S. west of the Appalachians, we saw that he had a very orderly, rational, and complete system for how those lands would be settled and developed. In the Market Revolution era, how well did Americans stick by these plans? What challenges did Jefferson not foresee when he was laying out these plans in the 1780s?