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The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
The Treaty of Dover, also known as the Secret Treaty of Dover, was an agreement between Louis XIV of France and Charles II of England signed at Dover on 1 June 1670. Officially, it only committed England to provide France with general diplomatic assistance. However, of greater significance were secret provisions which remained largely unknown ...
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Treaty with the Oto and Missouri Tribe 7 Stat. 277: Oto, Missouri: 1825 September 30 Treaty of Fort Atkinson: Treaty with the Pawnee Tribe 7 Stat. 279: Pawnee: 1825 October 6 Treaty of Fort Atkinson: Treaty with the Omaha Tribe 7 Stat. 282: Omaha: 1825 November 7 Treaty of St. Louis: Convention with the Shawnee 7 Stat. 284: 125, 126 Shawnee ...
When Missouri entered the Union, its western border was established as "a meridian line passing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas river, where the same empties into the Missouri river, thence, from the point aforesaid north, along the said meridian line, to the intersection of the parallel of latitude which passes through the rapids of the river Des Moines, making the said line ...
News of the pending peace treaty arrived late in 1782. In the final treaty, Canada lost portions of its southwest territory as a result of the Ohio Country and areas south of the Great Lakes being signed away by Great Britain to the United States, even though "not a single American soldier was north of the Ohio River when the treaty was signed ...
Later, after the Treaty of Greenville, settlements no longer needed to be spearheaded by forts, and sprang up quickly below the Treaty Line. Abraham Bradley's 1796 map of the United States includes many forts and settlements within the Northwest Territory. Fort Laurens (aka Lawrence), Ohio, 1778, now Bolivar; Cahokia, Illinois, 1778
too small to map: December 29, 1934 Kingman Reef was placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of the Navy. [384] no change to map: November 15, 1935 The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was dissolved and replaced with the Commonwealth of the Philippines. [401] [402] Pacific Ocean: March 16, 1936