following a system based on a rectangular survey in new england, as proposed by a congressional committee headed by thomas jefferson, the congress passed the northwest land ordinance of 1785 根據(jù)托馬斯?杰斐遜領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的委員會(huì)倡導(dǎo)的新英格蘭矩形測量有序系統(tǒng),國會(huì)通過了《1785年西北土地法令》。