<P> Many Native Americans in Ohio, who were not parties, refused to acknowledge treaties signed after the Revolutionary War that ceded lands north of the Ohio River inhabited by them to the United States . In a conflict sometimes known as the Northwest Indian War, Blue Jacket of the Shawnees and Little Turtle of the Miamis formed a confederation to stop white expropriation of the territory . After the Indian confederation had killed more than 800 soldiers in two battles--the worst defeats ever suffered by the U.S. at the hands of the Indians--President Washington assigned General Anthony Wayne command of a new army, which eventually defeated the confederation and thus allowed European - Americans to continue settling the territory . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> In 1907, a plaque commemorating the "first permanent settlement in the territory northwest of the Ohio" and the Northwest Ordinance was placed on the exterior of the Federal Hall National Memorial at the corner of Broad and Nassau Streets in Lower Manhattan . Federal Hall served as the nation's seat of government in 1787, when the Northwest Ordinance was passed into law . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> On July 13, 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a 3 - cent commemorative stamp to mark the 150th anniversary of the Northwest Territory as defined by the Ordinance of 1787 . The engraving on the stamp depicts a map of the United States at the time between the figures of Manasseh Cutler (left) and Rufus Putnam (right). </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> In 1907, a plaque commemorating the "first permanent settlement in the territory northwest of the Ohio" and the Northwest Ordinance was placed on the exterior of the Federal Hall National Memorial at the corner of Broad and Nassau Streets in Lower Manhattan . Federal Hall served as the nation's seat of government in 1787, when the Northwest Ordinance was passed into law . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> On July 13, 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a 3 - cent commemorative stamp to mark the 150th anniversary of the Northwest Territory as defined by the Ordinance of 1787 . The engraving on the stamp depicts a map of the United States at the time between the figures of Manasseh Cutler (left) and Rufus Putnam (right). </Td> </Tr>

How did the northwest land ordinance of 1785 attempt to resolve indian land claims