Helped to solve competing land claims between new states and gave national government right to administer new territories best represents an American benefit of the land ordinance of 1785
Option: C
Explanation:
Land Ordinance was taken into action in the year of 1785. The main purpose of this ordinance was to survey the land and divide it into number of territories. Before 1785 there was a clash in between different states about the authority of the land. That contradiction was solved by taking land ordinance and equally divide the and into states and by giving national government right to administer new territories otherwise unauthorized accession again may happen into newly delineated territories.
Americans were benefited from this division of land territory from two perspective one is farming and another one is marketing of product.
