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The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [365] [373] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
Image:Blank US Map with borders.svg, a blank states maps with borders. Image:BlankMap-USA.png, a map with no borders and states separated by transparency. Image:US map - geographic.png, a geographical map. On Wikimedia Commons, a free online media resource: commons:Category:Maps of the United States, the category for all maps with subcategories.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands.
(Capital of the United States of America 1776, 1777, 1778–1783, and 1790–1800). Lancaster: 1799: Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (Capital of the United States of America 1777). Harrisburg: 1812: Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Rhode Island Statehood in 1776: Providence: 1636: Capital of the English Colony of ...
On September 4, 1776, Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga recognised the United States as a nation in his correspondence with General Lee, addressing him with the title "General of the United States of America". [14] This term was transmitted to Joseph Reed and George Washington. [15] [16] Sweden: April 3, 1783 [17]
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
The Salem Witch Museum in Massachusetts chronicles a time in American history in which a series of accusations, investigations, and prosecutions ultimately led to more than 200 people being ...
The United States purchased Alaska from Russia; it was designated the Department of Alaska, and corresponds, except for a boundary dispute, to present-day Alaska. [65] The United States Senate approved the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (US$161,982,857.14 in 2025) on April 9, 1867.