Question

A similarity between the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was that they

Answer 1

The Land Ordnance of 1785 and Northwest Ordnance of 1787, both, touched upon land ownership policy by individuals, in the newly established colonies of America.

Land Ordnance of 1785, regularised the land policy existing at that time in America, by allowing settlers to purchase title to undeveloped farmland in the West.

Northwest Ordnance of 1787, set up a new government for the Northwest territory in America and laid out the process for admitting a new State to the American Union.