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Following are the historical territorial acquisitions of the United States: Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) ... Florida (East and West), purchased from Spain: 1819: 72,101:
The Adams–Onís Treaty (Spanish: Tratado de Adams-Onís) of 1819, [1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, [2] the Spanish Cession, [3] the Florida Purchase Treaty, [4] or the Florida Treaty, [5] [6] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico ().
On March 30, 1822, the United States merged East Florida and part of what formerly constituted West Florida into the Florida Territory. [10] William Pope Duval became the first official governor of the Florida Territory and soon afterward the capital was established at Tallahassee, but only after removing a Seminole tribe from the land.
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 ...
McConnell's historical maps of the United States - Louisiana Purchase 1919, part of the Library of Congress collection Florida In 1819, Spain gave East Florida to the United States.
United States territorial expansion since 1803, maps by William R. Shepherd (1923) Census Bureau map depicting territorial acquisitions and effective dates of statehood. The following is a list of the 31 U.S. territories that have become states, in the order of the date organized. (All were considered incorporated.)
Annotated map of the territorial changes of British and Spanish West Florida [1]. The West Florida Controversy included two border disputes that involved Spain and the United States in relation to the region known as West Florida over a period of 37 years.
This map was obtained from an edition of the National Atlas of the United States.Like almost all works of the U.S. federal government, works from the National Atlas are in the public domain in the United States.