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  2. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Historical regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. File:Viceroyalty of New Spain and the United States of ...

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    Mexico in North America (-mini map -rivers).svg; Viceroyalty of the New Spain 1800 (without Philippines).png; Mapa del Virreinato de la Nueva España (1794).svg; Information from: Partition of Mexico or New Spain and the USA Vs. Mexico and the USA (Concept map).png; United States Central change 1800-11-17.png; Requested by and knowledge from ...

  5. File:Territorial evolution of Mexico and the USA (1800–1900 ...

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    A map showing the territories of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1800 that were gradually annexed by the United States of America over the course of a century and what parts of New Spain were the Republic of Mexico only a century later.

  6. Territories of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States. The American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations in that they are not sovereign entities .

  7. Cartography of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776 , during the ...

  8. State cessions - Wikipedia

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    The state cessions are the areas of the United States that the separate states ceded to the federal government in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The cession of these lands, which for the most part lay between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River , was key to establishing a harmonious union among the former British colonies.

  9. Category : 1800s in the United States by state or territory

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    1800 in the United States by state or territory (18 C) 1801 in the United States by state or territory (20 C) 1802 in the United States by state or territory (20 C)