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The Territory of Washington was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1853, until November 11, 1889, when the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Washington. It was created from the portion of the Oregon Territory north of the lower Columbia River and north of the 46th parallel east ...
Washington Territory was admitted to the US as the 42nd state, Washington. August 12, 1889. The dispute between Manitoba and Ontario ended as Ontario's borders were finalized in accordance with the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889, which extended the province west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River. [82]
An enlargeable map of the United States after the Treaty of Paris in 1789 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Oregon Treaty of 1846 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Washington Organic Act in 1853 An enlargeable map of the United States after Washington Statehood in 1889 An ...
Watercolor of the United States Army building Robert's Redoubt under command of then 2nd Lt. Henry Martyn Robert (1837-1923), and then Captain George Pickett (1825-1875), on the off-shore San Juan Island in the San Juan Islands chain in the old federal Washington Territory (1853-1889), during the border dispute and skirmish of the so-called Pig ...
Washington Territory was admitted as the forty-second state, Washington. [212] [311] May 2, 1890 Oklahoma Territory was organized from the Public Land Strip and the western half of Indian Territory, except for the Cherokee Outlet, which would be added later upon cession from the Cherokee. [as] [313] [312] July 3, 1890
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 ...
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
Detail of a map showing the Republic of Texas by William Home Lizars, 1836 Map of the Republic of Texas by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1838 Map of the Republic of Texas and the Adjacent Territories by C.F. Cheffins, 1841. Sam Houston was elected as the new President of the Republic of Texas on September 5, 1836. [25]