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The Great Treaty of 1722 was a document signed in Albany, New York by leaders of the Five Nations of Iroquois, Province of New York, Colony of Virginia, and Province of Pennsylvania. Also known as the Treaty of Albany, it was made to create a boundary and keep the peace between English settlers and the Iroquois nations.
1817 – Rush–Bagot Treaty – The United States and Great Britain agree to demilitarize the Great Lakes. 1818 – Treaty of 1818 – resolved boundary issues between U.S. and Great Britain and demilitarized the border. 1819 – Adams–Onís Treaty – purchase of Florida from the Spanish Empire and established the border with New Spain.
Apodaca–Canning treaty: Between Spain and Great Britain. Treaty of Amritsar, 1809: Between Ranjit Singh and the British East India Company, restricting the Sikh Empire to north of the Sutlej River, India. Treaty of Hamina [note 92] Ends the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia. Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)
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A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.
The plain language: The Texas constitution would prohibit taxing a person or family’s net worth, including implementing a tax based on the difference between someone’s assents and their ...
Long before the Texas Revolution, parts of the state were briefly considered in U.S. territory, all stemming from the Louisiana Purchase. Bridges: 1819 treaty led to modern-day boundaries of East ...
The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that establishes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of Texas. The current document was adopted on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas history (including the Mexican constitution).