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1805 Cary map of the Great Lakes and Western Territory (Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, etc.) Integration of the Northwest Territory into a political unit, and settlement, depended on three factors: relinquishment by the British, extinguishment of states' claims west of the Appalachians, and usurpation or purchase of lands from the Native Americans.
The following is a list of sovereign countries and dependent territories in North America, a continent that covers the landmass north of the Colombia-Panama border as well as the islands of the Caribbean.
Connecticut ceded its Western Reserve to the federal government; [99] it presumably was then considered part of the Northwest Territory. The act doing so was passed in Congress on April 28, 1800, and Connecticut approved it on this date. [100] July 4, 1800 Indiana Territory was organized from the western half of Northwest Territory. [m] [102] [101]
[93] [94] [95] The U.S. Census Bureau often treats Puerto Rico as its own entity or groups it with the states and D.C. (for example, Puerto Rico has a QuickFacts page just like the states and D.C.) [96] Puerto Rico data is collected annually in American Community Survey estimates (just like the states), but data for the other territories is ...
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.) Northwest Territory (1787–1803); became the state of Ohio and the Territory of Indiana; Territory South of the River Ohio (also known as the Southwest Territory) (1790–1796); became the State of ...
These territories became the states of Oregon, Idaho, Washington and parts of other Western states. During the American Civil War, British Columbia officials pushed for London to invade and conquer the Washington Territory in effort to take advantage of Americans being distracted in the war on the Eastern region. This was rejected, as the UK ...
The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. It created the Northwest Territory, the new nation's first organized ...
The United Kingdom ceded most of its remaining land in North America to Canada, with Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory becoming the North-West Territories. The Rupert's Land Act 1868 transferred the region to Canada as of 1869, but it was only consummated in 1870 when £300,000 were paid to the Hudson's Bay Company .