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Northwest Territory of the United States, 1787 This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas in center (white).. In United States law, an organic act is an act of the United States Congress that establishes a territory of the United States and specifies how it is to be governed, [1] or an agency to manage certain federal lands.
The treaty created a boundary between British North America and the United States west of the Rocky Mountains at the 49th parallel. [1] Two years later on August 14, 1848 the Organic Act was signed into law by President James K. Polk creating the Oregon Territory out of the lands south of the 49th parallel, north of the 42nd parallel (northern ...
The first Territorial Capital City and Capitol building was located 1850 to 1856 in the small town of Fillmore, Utah, named for the new 13th President Millard Fillmore, who approved and signed the Congressional organic act and territorial erection bill of September 1850, and the small local government was set up here including the meetings of ...
The Organic Laws authorised a maximum of 640 acres (2.6 km 2) to be claimed by male pioneers. [11] This size was from legislation created by American Senator Linn in 1842, allowing "any white male" to take as much land in the Oregon Country. [13] Rejected in 1843, it was the basis for the later Donation Land Claim Act. [14]
Native Americans lived in the region for centuries. On July 25, 1868, President Andrew Johnson signed the Wyoming Organic Act creating the Wyoming Territory using lands from the Dakota, Idaho, and Utah territories, and on April 17, 1869, the territorial government was organized. [3]
1948 postage stamp depicting the Mississippi Territory. The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by both upper and lower chambers (the Senate and House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States, meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill, in the federal national capital city ...
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, [1] until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.
The state legislature met on July 1, 1850, and elected as United States senators Francis A. Cunningham and Richard H. Weightman, but while Weightman was on his way to Washington to claim his seat in the senate the famous compromise measures of 1850 were passed by Congress, one feature of which was the act organizing New Mexico as a territory ...