Throughout the controversy she showed a keen desire to extract from Congress all that could possibly be obtained, and to delay action as long as might be; though, like Georgia, Connecticut could by rights claim nothing that was not in reality obtained for the Union by the Union itself.

She made her grant conditionally upon being allowed to reserve for her own profit about five thousand square miles in what is now northern Ohio.

This tract was afterwards known as the Western Reserve.

Congress was very reluctant to accept such a cession, with its greedy offset, but there was no wise alternative, and the bargain was finally struck.
The non-claimant states had attained their object, and yet it had been obtained in a manner that left the claimant States satisfied.

The project for which Maryland had contended was realized, with the difference that Congress accepted the Northwest as a gift coupled with conditions, instead of taking it as an unconditional right.