Answer :The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 created rules for the settling of western lands and the admission of these lands as states.
These rules were followed throughout the west, with the one exception of disagreement over slavery in new states.
The government protected western settlement with troops and pushed the Native Americans off western lands.
The Federal government also financed the constructed of the first transcontinental railroad in the west.
