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1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
Toggle North America subsection. 3.1 Canada. 3.2 United States. ... 1865 New York state election; 1865 South Carolina gubernatorial election; South America. Ecuador
The 1865 New York state election was held on November 7, 1865, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, two Judges of the New York Court of Appeals, a Canal Commissioners, an Inspector of State Prisons and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, as well as all members of ...
Media related to 1865 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons; Booknotes interview with Jay Winik on April 1865: The Month That Saved America, July 29, 2001. "1865". Timeline. Digital Public Library of America. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014.
The federal government accepted the cession from New York of its western claims, which the state ceded on February 19, 1780, and executed on March 1, 1781; New York proclaimed its new western border to be a line drawn south from the western end of Lake Ontario.
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(The Center Square) – President-elect Donald Trump has made international headlines by suggesting that Canada could become the 51st state and the U.S. could purchase Greenland. U.S. expansionist ...
The Sunday magazine of the New York World appealed to immigrants with this 1906 cover page celebrating their arrival at Ellis Island. From 1865 through 1918 an unprecedented and diverse stream of immigrants arrived in the United States, 27.5 million in total.