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United States: Settled as Winter Harbor. 1631: South Berwick: Maine: United States: Settled by sailors from the Pied Cow who landed at the confluence of the Salmon Falls and Great Works Rivers: 1631: Lewes: Delaware: United States: Purchased in 1629 and settled as the short-lived Dutch Zwaanendael Colony in 1631.
List of incidents of civil unrest in Colonial North America; List of North American settlements by year of foundation; Political culture of the United States; Slavery in the colonial United States; Social history of soldiers and veterans in the United States; Thirteen Colonies; United Colonies, the name for the emerging nation, 1775–1776 ...
The events in this timeline occurred primarily in the portion of the modern continental United States west of the Mississippi River, and mostly in the period between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the admission of the last western territories as states in 1912 where most of the frontier was already settled and became urbanized; a few ...
The country grew rapidly in population and area, as pioneers pushed the frontier of settlement west. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] Native American tribes in some places resisted militarily, but they were overwhelmed by settlers and the army, and after 1830, were relocated to reservations in the west. [ 94 ]
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
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 ...
The Alaska boundary dispute with Canada was resolved, generally in favor of the United States claim. [279] Northwestern North America: December 10, 1903 Land along southern Guantánamo Bay was leased in perpetuity from Cuba for use as a naval base; [336] the treaty took effect February 23, 1903, and the formal handover occurred on this date. [337]
The West, as the most recently settled part of the United States, is often known for broad highways and open space. Pictured is a road in Utah to Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation. The Western United States is the largest region of the country, covering nearly half the land area of the contiguous United States.