Use the map of the land ordinance of 1785 to answer the question.
why was the land ordinance of 1785 important to the development of the united states?

it regulated land usage to encourage industrial development in the northwest territory.
it raised the revenue the country needed to repay the nation's revolutionary war debts.
it limited the spread of slavery by establishing a boundary between free and slave regions.
it established the process by which new territories would be admitted to the union.