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  2. List of countries formerly ruled by the United States

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    The United States, throughout its history, has had political, military, and administrative control over various regions and countries across the world. These territories were often acquired through war, treaties, or other diplomatic means.

  3. U.S. territorial sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    A territory has been historically divided into organized territories and unorganized territories. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] An unorganized territory was generally either unpopulated or set aside for Native Americans and other indigenous peoples in the United States by the U.S. federal government, until such time as the growing and restless population ...

  4. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The act organizing Wyoming Territory became law on this date, but it is unclear if the territory could be considered "organized" until May 19, 1869, as the act specifies it was not to take effect until a government is organized; however, all sources use this date as the creation, and most use it for the organization, of the territory.

  5. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe

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    The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, international recognition, and four largely unrecognised de facto states with limited to no recognition have territory in Europe and/or membership in international European ...

  6. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The United States for example practiced a settler colonial policy of Manifest Destiny and the Trail of Tears. Other regions, including California, Patagonia, the North Western Territory, and the northern Great Plains, experienced little to no colonization at all until the 1800s. European contact and colonization had disastrous effects on the ...

  7. Historical regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent

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    For a table of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe with geographical data such as area, population, and population density, see Europe: political geography. Geologically, Europe is part of Eurasia and due to the Isthmus of Suez forms part of Afro-Eurasia.

  9. United States territorial acquisitions table - Wikipedia

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    Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) Area (km 2.) Cost in dollars 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)