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...rovided for the admission of [[Directory:Maine|Maine]] as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in the following year. Jefferson City is the capital and S ...Independence, Missouri; and by 1845, Kansas City, Missouri. Independence, Missouri was the most popular "jumping off" point on the Oregon Trail.

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.... Part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Iowa was organized as a separate territory in 1838. The Mound Builders lived in the area in prehistoric times. Des Moi ...a, and Sioux tribes lived along the Mississippi River. The Omaha, Oto, and Missouri tribes lived in the western part of the state.

.... Acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, the region became part of the Dakota Territory in 1861 and was split off from [[Directory:North Dakota|North Dakota]] at t ...he first permanent settlement, was established in 1817. In 1831, the first Missouri River steamboat reached the fort.

...ited States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and was made a separate territory by the [[Directory:Kansas|Kansas]]-Nebraska Act of 1854. Its present bounda Steamboating on the Missouri River, initiated in 1819, brought business to the river ports of Omaha and

...(later the Territory of Louisiana and the [[Directory:Missouri|Missouri]] Territory). Baton Rouge is the capital and New Orleans the largest city. Population: ...Louisiana (later Missouri Territory), north of the 33rd parallel; and the Territory of Orleans, south of the parallel.

...1890 as the Oklahoma Territory, which was merged with the adjoining Indian Territory to form the present state boundaries. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s forced man ...t was established at Salina by the Chouteau family of St. Louis before the territory was transferred to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but

...t Britain and the United States from 1818 to 1846. Idaho became a separate territory in 1863. Boise is the capital and the largest city. Population: [[Populatio ...r traders from St. Louis penetrated the mountains, and Andrew Henry of the Missouri Fur Company established a post near present-day Rexburg, the first American

...s acquired by the United States, and, in 1819, Arkansas was organized as a territory. Its northern, eastern and southern borders were the same as they are now, By 1836, the Arkansas Territory had the 60,000 residents required to become a state, and after writing an a

...der treaty with Great Britain (1818), the region became part of the Dakota Territory in 1861. It was set off from [[Directory:South Dakota|South Dakota]] when s ...amer, the Yellowstone, inaugurated steamboat travel on the turbulent upper Missouri in 1832. Additional transportation was provided by the supply caravans of R

...admitted as the 34th state in [[Year Admitted:=1861|1861]]. Organized as a territory by the Kansas-[[Directory:Nebraska|Nebraska]] Act of 1854, it became a virt ...rriors destroyed the fort a year later. In 1762 France ceded the Louisiana territory to Spain. In 1800, the Treaty of Madrid gave the land back to France.

...tion of [[Florida]] (1819); the [[Missouri Compromise]] (1820), in which [[Missouri]] was declared a slave state; and the profession of the [[Monroe Doctrine]] ...state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Missouri forever.

...the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The original territory (established 1850) included [[Directory:Arizona|Arizona]] and part of [[Dir ...nts down the Santa Fe Trail to occupy New Mexico, which became an American territory. An 1847 revolt by Mexican loyalists precipitated battles at Santa Cruz and

...s among other western territories, the region was organized as the Montana Territory in 1864. Helena is the capital and Billings the largest city. Population: [ ...1846. At various times, parts of Montana were in territories of Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

...ond-largest expansion of the nation's territory. Polk secured the [[Oregon Territory]] (including Washington, Oregon and Idaho), amounting to about 285,000 squa ...ouri]], but allow it below that line if approved by eligible voters in the territory.

...83. The short-lived state of Franklin (1784-1788) formed the basis for the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio (1790) and the later state of ...capital at Knoxville. It was the first state to be carved out of national territory.

In Congress, he opposed the entrance of [[Texas]] as a [[Slave state|slave territory]]. He came in second place in the bid for [[Speaker of the United States H ...s of [[Henry Clay]] as well as the opponents of slavery extension into the territory gained by the [[U.S.-Mexican War]]. A group of practical Whig politicians n

...by his vote, in January 1820, for a resolution opposing the admission of [[Missouri]] as a slave state (though he himself was a slave owner). In the same year, ...1838 from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina to the Oklahoma territory. Van Buren was determined to avoid war.

| predecessor2= None ([[Spain|Spanish territory]]) ...ther to place a force in Florida adequate at once to the protection of her territory ... or cede to the United States a province, of which she retains nothing b

...en, Massachusetts had bought up most of the land claims in this wilderness territory, an arrangement which lasted until 1820 when Maine separated from Massachus ...r.. This arrangement allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state, with Missouri entering a year later as a slave state, thereby preserving the numerical ba

...oad]] into [[Ohio]] with surveys for its continuation west to [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]]; the beginning of the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Canal]], the constr ...ed IQ of any US president. His IQ ranges from 165 to 175, well into genius territory.

...F. Frear]], made commissioners by its authority, drafted a [[United States Territory|territorial]] form of government, which became law [[April 30]], [[1900]]. *[[Hawaii#Hawaiian territory|Annexation of Hawaii]] (1898)

|birth_place=[[Lamar, Missouri]] |death_place=[[Kansas City, Missouri]]

...ral different posts. He was sent to [[Fort Vancouver]] in the [[Washington Territory]] in 1853, where he served as quartermaster of the [[U.S. 4th Infantry Regi ...ean years. From 1854 to 1858 he labored on a family farm near [[St. Louis, Missouri]], using slaves owned by his father-in-law, but it did not prosper. Grant o

...f difficulties with land deeds in Kentucky: Unlike land in the [[Northwest Territory]], Kentucky never had a proper U.S. survey, and farmers often had difficult ..., Taylor's people offered Lincoln various positions in the remote [[Oregon Territory]], primarily the [[List of Governors of Oregon|governorship]]. Acceptance o

...ries of armed incursions by Irish-American civil war veterans into British territory in Canada, named the [[Fenian Raids]].{{fact|date=February 2008}} Eventuall ...istory'' 6:68</ref> Johnson, in a letter to Governor Thomas C. Fletcher of Missouri, wrote, "This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am Presi

...uisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York ...e:'' from 18 July 1947 until 1 October 1994, the US administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; it entered into a political relationship with all f

...tic City]]. Several states ([[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], [[Louisiana]] and [[Missouri]]) allow slot machines (as well as any casino-style gambling) only on licen The [[Unincorporated territories of the United States|territory]] of [[Puerto Rico]] places significant restrictions on slot machine owners

...Purchase in 1803, when he used the implied powers to annex a huge foreign territory and all its French and Indian inhabitants. His enforcement of the [[Embargo ...itude" in any of the new states admitted to the Union from the [[Northwest Territory]].<ref>[http://www.econlib.org/library/ypdbooks/lalor/llCy787.html Ordinanc

...ent of the Finance Committee; [[Rolla Wells]], twice mayor of [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] (from 1901 to 1909), and later Governor of the [[Federal Reserv ...independent development and international withdrawal from occupied Russian territory

[04:38] <Sir_Designer> remember, Illinois fought with the North, against Missouri and Kentucky ...tersrtingly, there are 50 internationally recognized sovereign states with territory located within the common definition of Europe and/or membership in interna

[18:20] <Night_o_Big_Wind> Unfamiliar territory, so I better check... [16:59] <Peter-C> No wai, it is in Red Sox territory