The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a> enacts the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Ordinance" id="mwUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northwest Ordinance">Northwest Ordinance</a> establishing governing rules for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory" id="mwUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northwest Territory">Northwest Territory</a>. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" id="mwUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slavery in the United States">slavery</a>.