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...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 29th state in [[Year Admitted:=1846|1846]]. Part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Io ...iver. The Omaha, Oto, and Missouri tribes lived in the western part of the state.

...in 1867 for $7,200,000 and was known as Seward's Folly (after Secretary of State William H. Seward, who negotiated the purchase) until gold was discovered i ...ter and fur trade brought about the Russians trying to interest the United States in purchasing Alaska in 1859.

...by the French in the mid-17th century, the area became part of the United States through the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the Louisiana Purchase (1803). St. P ...was ceded by Britain in 1818. All of Minnesota was now owned by the United States.

...775. By the Treaty of Paris (1783) the territory became part of the United States. Frankfort is the capital and Lexington the largest city. Population: [[Pop ...d founded Boonesboro. Title to this land was challenged by Virginia, whose legislature voided (1778) the Transylvania Company's claims, although individual settle

...ritory was created, including all of present-day Washington and Idaho. The state's current boundaries were established in 1853. Salem is the capital and Por ...but in 1818 a treaty provided for 10 years of joint rights for the United States and Great Britain in Oregon (i.e., the whole Columbia River area). This agr

...tate in [[Year Admitted:=1867|1867]]. The region became part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and was made a separate territory by ...but development began only after the area passed from France to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804) an

...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 19th state in [[Year Admitted:=1816|1816]]. The area was controlled by France until 17 ...seeking farmland. The American Revolution and the formation of the United States of America brought more demand for the lands of the west.

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...f America|United States]] bordering on Canada. It was admitted as the 39th state in [[Year Admitted:=1889]]. Acquired through the Louisiana Purchase (1803) ...se of 1803 the northwestern half of North Dakota became part of the United States. The southeastern half was acquired from Great Britain in 1818 when the int

...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 35th state in [[Year Admitted:=1863]]. West Virginia was part of Virginia until the ar ...med it Mecklenburg; now called Shepherdstown, it is the oldest town in the state. Homes sprang up along the rivers, but the formidable Allegheny Plateau bar

| order=10th [[President of the United States]] | party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]], [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]

...rance to the British in 1763, and ceded by them to the newly formed United States in 1783. Springfield is the capital and Chicago the largest city. Populatio ...along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. They traveled the length of the state -- from what is now Chicago to the southernmost reaches of Illinois.

...ast-central [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as one of the original Thirteen Colonies in [[Year Admit ...ryland became the 7th state to join the new country, with Annapolis as the state capital. In 1791, Washington D.C. was created from land donated by Maryland

| order=9th [[President of the United States]] | order2= [[United States Senator]] <br> from [[Ohio]]

...organized in 1798 and enlarged in 1804 and 1813, also included the present state of [[Directory:Alabama|Alabama]]. Jackson is the capital and the largest ci ...t parallel as the northern boundary between Spanish Florida and the United States. Despite this, Spain continued to occupy Natchez. The two countries settled

| nationality = [[United States|American]] | order = 13th [[President of the United States]]

...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 30th state in [[Year Admitted:=1848]]. First settled by the French, the region was ced ...an Revolution, when the Old Northwest formally passed (1783) to the United States and was made (1787) a part of the Northwest Territory. After Jay's Treaty (

| nationality=United States | order=14th [[President of the United States]]

...the eastern [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as the first of the original Thirt ...e the first state to ratify the new Constitution of the United States. The state constitution of 1776 was superseded by a new constitution in 1792, which pr

...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 23rd state in [[Year Admitted:=1820|1820]]. First explored by Europeans in 1602, the r ...ed until 1820 when Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a separate state.

===United States=== ...four decades [[Guy Lombardo]] and his Royal Canadians serenaded the United States from the ballroom of the [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]] on [[Park Avenue (Manhat

| nationality=[[United States|American]] | order=8th [[President of the United States]]

...|North Carolina]] and South Carolina in 1729. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union (1860), thus precipitating the Civil War. Columbia ...Carolina troops fired on federal Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and the state was the first to secede from the Union.

...xplored by the Spanish, and the southern section was claimed by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase (1803). Montgomery is the capital and Bir ...close of the American Revolution, Great Britain ceded (1783) to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi except the Floridas (see West Florida Con

...on was governed as a province of Mexico after 1821 and ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The original territory (establi ..., Vásquez de Coronado and his men explored much of the southwestern United States, ventured deep into the plains of Kansas, descended the walls of the Grand

...e northeast [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] between [[Directory:Vermont|Vermont]] and [[Directory:Maine|Maine]]. It w ...during the American Revolution and was not settled until Vermont became a state.

| order=17th [[President of the United States]] ...r 1869; elected Vice President in 1864 on a [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union]] ticket; no party affiliation 1865–1869

| order=4th [[President of the United States]] | religion=[[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]]

...leader of the progressive conservative wing of the [[History of the United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] in the early 20th century, a pioneer in ...]], a federal judge, [[Governor-General of the Philippines]], and [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] before being nominated for President in

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| order=2nd [[President of the United States]] | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]

| order=11th [[President of the United States]] | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]

...e company was formed in 2000 upon the merger of Minneapolis-based Northern States Power Company (NSP) with Denver-based New Century Energies. ...Byllesby and Insull also organized two utility holding companies: Northern States Power Company of Delaware in 1909 and Standard Gas and Electric in 1910.

...means which are daily employed against the same '' '''evil''' '' under the State governments. ...''' '' infinitely less likely to attend us in a united than in a disunited state; nay, it may be safely asserted that it is an '''evil''' altogether unlikel

| order=7th [[President of the United States]] | jr/sr3 = United States Senator

...law in English, defined a corporation as "a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession un ...porations whereas in other jurisdictions such as the United States and the United Kingdom banks are prohibited from owning shares in external corporation.

...tional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivati ...te, Kachin State, Kayah State, Kayin State, Mon State, Rakhine State, Shan State

| order=1st [[President of the United States]] | death_place=[[Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]], [[United States]]

| office=President of the United States | office2=President of the United States

| office=President of the United States | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]

|order=36th [[President of the United States]] |order2=37th [[Vice President of the United States]]

| order = 16th [[President of the United States]] ...Republican Party|Republican]] (1854-1864), [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union]] (1864-1865)

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| order = 39th [[President of the United States]] | order3 = Member of the [[Georgia State Senate]]

| order=3rd [[President of the United States]] | order2=2nd [[Vice President of the United States]]

| bgcolor="#ffffff" | slightly smaller than the [[Directory:United States of America|US]] | bgcolor="#ffffff" | Communist state

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[04:27] <{Soap}> wiw the United States is actually a first world country [04:27] <{Soap}> usually groups like that consider the United States ot basically be a third world country with a lot of money