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Republic of Indian Stream (1832–1835) is represented on the map as the disputed territory between Maine and New Hampshire of the U.S. and Quebec and New Brunswick of Canada. Republic of Madawaska (1827) is represented on the map as the disputed territory between Maine (U.S.) and Canada. The area, known as Madawaska Valley, was transferred to ...
The District of Louisiana was organized as Louisiana Territory. [113] [116] March 1, 1809 Illinois Territory was organized from the western half of Indiana Territory. [q] [118] [117] September 26, 1810 The Republic of West Florida declared independence from Spain, claiming the area of West Florida west of the Perdido River. It maintained some ...
Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802) 1783: 892,135: 2,310,619----- Annexation of the Vermont Republic: 1791: 9,616: 24,905----- Louisiana ...
A map of the United States showing land claims and cessions from 1782 to 1802. 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 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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state's six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 ...
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
"I can't sit here and talk about hypotheticals," he said. The new 6th Congressional District runs from Baton Rouge to Shreveport and includes the city of Alexandria at its central point.