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| | History of Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Florida Territory became an organized territory of the United States on March 30, 1822. | | | The Americans merged East Florida and West Florida (although the majority of West Florida was annexed to Orleans Territory and Mississippi Territory), and established a new capital in Tallahassee, conveniently located halfway between the East Florida capital of St. Augustine and the West Florida capital of Pensacola. | | | In 1767, the British moved the northern boundary of West Florida to a line extending from the mouth of the Yazoo River east to the Chattahoochee River (32° 28′ north latitude), consisting of approximately the lower third of the present states of Mississippi and Alabama. |
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| | Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Orleans Territory (most of which became the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the Indiana Territory. | | | Napoleon added the money from the sale of the Louisiana territory to his massive war chest and began his plans to control the European continent. | | | The matter was not fully settled until the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819, in which Spain ceded all of Florida to the U.S. and the boundary between the Louisiana territory and the Spanish colonies was set along the Sabine, Red and Arkansas Rivers and the 42nd parallel. |
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| | Arizona Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Arizona Territory was an organized territory of the United States that existed between 1863 and 1912, as well as a territory of the Confederate States of America that existed from 1861 to 1865. | | | After the expansion of the New Mexico Territory in 1853 by the Gadsden Purchase, proposals for a division of the territory and the organization of a separate Territory of Arizona in the southern half of the territory were advanced as early as 1856. | | | The territory of Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state on February 14, 1912. |
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| | Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is bordered by Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west, and the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north. | | | Alaska Natives, while organized in and around their communities, are often active within the Native corporations which have been given ownership over large tracts of land, and thus need to deliberate resource conservation and development issues. | | | Notable is Alaska's relatively large Eastern Orthodox Christian population, a result of early Russian colonization and missionary work among indigenous Alaskans. |
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| | FCAT Online, Social Studies, Glencoe Online |
| | Florida was organized and governed according to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. | | | An Indian territory, which is now the state of Oklahoma, was set aside for all Native Americans. | | | Once a U.S. territory had 60,000 people, it could become a state. |
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http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/fcat/florida_becomes_state.html
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| | Wyoming Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The portion of the Wyoming Territory east of the continental divide was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and organized into the Nebraska Territory in | | | The portion of the Wyoming Territory west of the continental divide and north of the 42nd parallel was originally part of the Oregon Country, which was organized into the | | | The Idaho Territory subsumed this land as well in 1863. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oregon |
| | The Catholic Women's League of Portland was organized in the interest of young women wage-earners, especially for that very large class who have come west to find positions and are without home ties. | | | This was Dr. John McLoughlin (q.v.), the most heroic figure in Oregon history. | | | The savage murder of Dr. Whitman in 1847 was a great catastrophe. |
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| | Chronicles of Oklahoma |
| | Almost simultaneously with the legislative establishment of the county, the governor of the territory issued commissions to the captains of two companies organized (or to be organized) in the new jurisdiction; subalterns were later chosen and commissioned. | | | In 1824 the Department of War, influenced in part by the representations of Henry Conway, delegate to Congress from the Arkansas Territory, determined to establish a post in the vicinity of the mouth of the Kiamichi for the protection of the southwestern frontier. | | | This deposition was found in the archives of Hempstead County, Arkansas. |
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| | Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Colorado Territory was organized as a United States territory on February 28, 1861 and Colorado attained statehood in 1876 (earning it the moniker the "Centennial State"). | | | Currently, Democrats are in control of both chambers of the General Assembly. | | | Persons reporting German ancestry are the largest group in the state and are especially strong in the Front Range and eastern Plains. |
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| | Kansas Timeline |
| | Kansas is organized as a territory, including the eastern half of present-day Colorado. | | | Quantrill is infamous for murder, robbery, and the mutilation of the dead. | | | Father Padilla is said to have been the first Christian martyr in America. |
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| | Oregon Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1848, the U.S. portion of the Oregon Country was formally organized as the Oregon Territory. | | | Spain gave up its claims piecemeal, at the convention in 1790 that followed the seizure of Nootka Sound and relinquishing any remaining claims to territory north of the 42nd parallel to the United States as part of the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819. | | | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark scouted the territory for the United States on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, from 1804 to 1806. |
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | The rich Oregon fur trade was controlled by the British Hudson’s Bay Co., which had absorbed the North West Co. During the 1840s organized American immigration to the Oregon territory began, and the “Oregon question” became a matter of concern. | | | In 1819, Spain, which also had laid claim to the Oregon country, relinquished its claim to all Pacific coast territory north of the 42d parallel; and in 1824 and 1825, by treaties with the U.S. and Great Britain, Russia relinquished claim to territory south of the parallel 54° 40¢. | | | Oregon was established as a territory in 1848; as originally established, it covered all the area between the 42d and 49th parallels, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and included present-day Washington and parts of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. |
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| | Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - The Civil War in Indian Territory |
| | Independently, Cherokee colonel Stand Watie organized a second, anti-Ross regiment, which brought the total to four regiments comprising five thousand Indian troops. | | | In compliance with these treaties, tribal governments organized three Indian regiments: (1) a Choctaw-Chickasaw regiment, (2) a Creek-Seminole regiment, and (3) a Cherokee regiment. | | | The economy of Indian Territory was totally destroyed; almost every house, barn, store, and public building had been burned. |
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| | Idaho Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1864, the Montana Territory was organized from the northeastern section of the territory east of the Bitteroot Range. | | | Idaho State Univ. document (PDF) on origin of name "Idaho" and how Idaho became territory | | | The territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Idaho on July 3, 1890. |
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| | Louisiana Purchase - Open Encyclopedia |
| | Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Orleans Territory (most of which became the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the Indiana Territory. | | | Napoléon added the money from the sale of the Louisiana territory to his massive war chest and began his plans to control the European continent. | | | The matter was not fully settled until the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819, in which Spain ceded all of Florida to the U.S. and the boundary between the Louisiana territory and the Spanish colonies was set along the Sabine, Red and Arkansas Rivers and the 42nd parallel. |
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| | Wyoming Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The portion of the Wyoming Territory east of the continental divide was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and organized into the Nebraska Territory in | | | The Idaho Territory subsumed this land as well in 1863. | | | and subsumed into the Idaho Territory in 1863. |
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| | Introduction to Kansas - The United States of America |
| | Missouri squatters organized the Squatters Claim Association in 1854 in order to secure their claims to the land and prevent emigration from the northern states. | | | The Squatter State: Kansas was referred to as the "Squatter State" because of the new settlers that flocked into the new territory establishing claims to the land. | | | The Kansas River was named by the French after the Kansas, Omaha, Kaw, Osage and Dakota Sioux Indian word "KaNze" meaning, in the Kansas language "south wind." The state name for Arkansas shares its origins with Kansas. |
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| | Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Orleans Territory (most of which became the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the Indiana Territory. | | | Napoleon added the money from the sale of the Louisiana territory to his massive war chest and began his plans to control the European continent. | | | A strong America would be a buffer against Britain when the inevitable showdown came (there is also the possibility that he wished to encourage the USA to assist with his embargo on strategic resources reaching the British, the Continental policy). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Mexico |
| | In 1850, when New Mexico was organized as a territory of the United States, it (including, till 1863, Arizona and part of Colorado) was made a vicariate Apostolic, under the Rt. | | | He then returned to Mexico, and his narrative, especially what he said about the seven cities of Cibola, was an incentive to Coronado, who set out from Culiacán in 1540, accompanied by Marcos and a large body of Spaniards and Indians. | | | However, the wrongs perpetrated by local governors exasperated the Indians, and the missionaries were thus laboring under difficulties. |
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| | Islam and the Arabs : History & Prophecy - Israel My Beloved |
| | Before Arafat began his proselytizing, most of the Arabs from the territory of Palestine thought of themselves as members of an all-embracing Arab nation. | | | Considering that the whole of the "Mandated Palestine" territory according to the Balfour Declaration was to be the of Jewish National State, the Arabs emerged with the lion's share. | | | The Palestine Mandate as granted to Great Britain at the San Remo Conference of 1920, and, confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922, covered a territory of 45,820 square miles East and West of the Jordan river. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Montana |
| | The eastern portion became a part of the Louisiana Territory on the cession of the latter to the United States, and was attached to various territories organized out of that region. | | | In 1864 the Territory of Montana was organized with boundaries identical with those which now define the limits of the state. | | | General Thomas Francis Meagher was appointed secretary of the territory in 1865 and, in the absence of the governor, assumed, under the law, the duties of that office, which he continued to discharge until his unfortunate death by drowning in 1867. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kansas |
| | The State of Kansas is not as large as the territory organized under the same name; in area it ranks the eleventh among the states in the Union, and it is nearly ten times as large as Massachusetts. | | | Kansas Territory extended westward to the summit of the Rocky Mountains, including a large portion of the present State of Colorado under the name of Arapahoe County. | | | Since then the red men have left no mark on the pages of Kansas history, and their number within the state has been reduced to about 2000. |
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| | Chronology of North Dakota History |
| | Dakota Territory was officially organized by the Federal government and William Jayne was appointed the first governor by President Abraham Lincoln. | | | Photographs shown on the State Historical Society of North Dakota's web site are taken from the collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota and may not be included in any publication, printed or online, without the written permission of the Society. | | | Any use of this information should credit the State Historical Society of North Dakota. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mormonism |
| | Congress denied the petition for statehood, and organized the Territory of Utah, naming it after a local tribe of Indians. | | | As soon as a civic government was organized, many of the forms of political procedure already in use in American commonwealths were introduced, and remained in force till statehood was secured for Utah. | | | So long as Utah remained a territory there was much bitterness between her Mormon and non-Mormon citizens, the latter termed "Gentiles". |
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| | A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri |
| | Upon the admission of Missouri into the Union, the territory now comprising Greene County--at least by far the greater portion, the possible exception being a strip along the northern part--was in what was known as Wayne County, one of the original counties of Missouri Territory organized in 1818. | | | The first subdivision of the county after its organization seemed to have been when Rives (now Henry) County was organized December 13, 1834, and the next upon the creation of Barry, January 5, 1835. | | | The county court, when organized as aforesaid, shall have power to designate the place of holding the county and circuit courts within and for said county of Greene, until otherwise provided by law. |
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| | Indiana Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Indiana Territory was an organized territory of the United States from 1800 to 1816, created by Act of Congress and signed into law by President John Adams on May 7, 1800, effective on July 4. | | | must the Territory of Indiana take a retrograde step into barbarism" (From the report of the Congressional committee that addressed the petitions.) The petitions were denied. | | | The original boundaries of the territory included the area of the Northwest Territory west of the Great Miami River and a line extending north from its headwaters in Indian Lake (in present-day Logan County, Ohio) along approximately 83 deg 45 min W longitude. |
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| | Colorado Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Colorado Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States that existed between 1861 and 1876. | | | The territory was organized out of lands in the Rockies on both sides of the continental divide and incorporating the area of the Pikes Peak gold rush that had begun two years previously. | | | The territory was organized in the wake of the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush, which had brought the first large concentration of white settlement to the region. |
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| | Bay County Map History / Bay-journal |
| | Territory legislature created several new counties, but they were not not organized, they had no elections, officers or courts. | | | They had no elections or governing bodies of their own until 1835 when Saginaw county was organized, two years before Michigan became state. | | | In 1805, it was dsignated the "Michigan Territory by Congress to provide a system of governing for the growing population. |
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| | Quick History of Oregon |
| | 1848--Oregon Territory is organized on August 14 (Abraham Lincoln is asked to be governor of the Territory of Oregon). | | | 1863--Idaho Territory created, eventually making three full states out of original Oregon Country. | | | 1978--Congress lists the Oregon Trail as a National Historic Trail. |
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