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United States (United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Acquisition of Territory.
The original territory of the United States as acknowledged by the treaty with Great Britain, in 1783, consisted of the following thirteen States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
The boundaries of many of these States, as constituted by their charters, extended to the Pacific Ocean; but in practice they ceased at the Mississippi.
Beyond that river the territory belonged, by discovery and settlement, to the-King of Spain.
All the territory west of the present boundaries of the States was ceded by them to the United States in the order named: Virginia, 1784: Massachusetts, 1785; Connecticut, 1786 and 1800; South Carolina, 1787; North Carolina, 1790: Georgia, 1802.
This ceded territory comprised part of Minnesota, all of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio (see Northwest Territor
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): entry acquisition-of-territory
Acquisition of Territory.
The original territory of the United States as acknowledged by the treaty with Great Britain, in 1783, consisted of the following thirteen States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
The boundaries of many of these States, as constituted by their charters, extended to the Pacific Ocean; but in practice they ceased at the Mississippi.
Beyond that river the territory belonged, by discovery and settlement, to the-King of Spain.
All the territory west of the present boundaries of the States was ceded by them to the United States in the order named: Virginia, 1784: Massachusetts, 1785; Connecticut, 1786 and 1800; South Carolina, 1787; North Carolina, 1790: Georgia, 1802.
This ceded territory comprised part of Minnesota, all of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio (see Northwest Territory)