单选题 Which of the following proposals did the Ordinance of 1784 incorporate?

A、 New states should be admitted to the Union in numbers equal to the older states.
B、 The Union should make the western region into tributary states.
C、 New states should share the same rights in the Union as the original states.
D、 The great western region should be divided into twelve states.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】从文章首句“it embodied the principle that new states should be formed from the western region and admitted to the Union on an equal basis with the original commonwealths”提到，1784年法规定西部新加入的州应获得与最早加入联盟成员同等的地位，因此四个选项中只有C项说法正确，应选C。