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In 1804, all of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 33rd parallel became the Orleans Territory, and the remainder became the District of Louisiana. (The District of Louisiana was later renamed the Louisiana Territory; and still later, when the Orleans Territory became the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.)
The Eighth Congress of the United States on March 26, 1804, passed legislation entitled "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof," [2] which established the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana as organized incorporated U.S. territories.
The 1804 State of the Union address was delivered by the third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson to the 8th United States Congress on November 8, 1804. In his address, Jefferson focused on matters of foreign relations, domestic governance, and the ongoing expansion of the United States following the Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1]
The area north of present-day Arkansas was commonly referred to as Upper Louisiana. The United States District of Louisiana had two incarnations: first, as a federally administered military district (March 10, 1804 - September 30, 1804); then as an organized territory (October 1, 1804 – July 4, 1805) under the jurisdiction of the Indiana ...
Everett S. Brown. The Senate Debate on the Breckinridge Bill for the Government of Louisiana, 1804. The American Historical Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (January, 1917), pp. 340–364; Bayrd Still. To the West on Business in 1804. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 64, No. 1 (January, 1940), pp. 1–21; José de Onís.
Following the Louisiana Purchase from France, the U.S. had quickly established the Louisiana [2] and Orleans Territories. [3] President Jefferson displayed an active interest in the area to the east of New Orleans, the Spanish province of West Florida (which included the "Florida Parishes" and the area surrounding the mouth of the Mobile River in today's state of Alabama). [4]
A postcard of a painting by F. L. Stoddard of the transfer of Upper Louisiana from France to the United States.. Three Flags Day commemorates March 9, and 10, 1804, when Spain officially completed turning over the Louisiana colonial territory to France, which then officially turned over the same lands to the United States, in order to finalize the 1803 Louisiana Purchase.