Which is true about the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? A-The Northwest Ordinance ensured that any new free state would be balanced by a new slave state.
B-The Northwest Ordinance banned the institution of slavery in the Northwest Territories.
C-The Northwest Ordinance encouraged slave owners to settle in the Northwest Territories.
D-The Northwest Ordinance guaranteed freedom for any slave who escaped to the Northwest Territories.

The Northwest Ordinance banned the institution of slavery in the Northwest Territories.  

Explanation:

The northwest ordinance were pushed by the progressive group to outlaw all slavery in United States. They're based on the principles that all humans are equal and none should be forced to give their livelihood under chains and whips.

The northern states argued that the southern states should have no ground to refuse this ordinance. Ever since the industrial revolution, the use of slavery is no longer necessary. They wanted the south to transition to using machinery for their productions rather than another human being.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

i think its provide for the common defense