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• Directory:Aurora, Ohio
  ...ary War veterans during the land grant period resulting from the Northwest Territory Ordinance of 1787. the town was once considered the cheese-making capital o
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• Directory:Vietnam/Vietnam Geography
  '''Disputed Territory:''' On December 30, 1999, China and Vietnam Sea are still regarded as disputed territory. Malaysia, Brunei, the
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ...d as the first [[Governor of Indiana Territory|Governor]] of the [[Indiana Territory]] and later as a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representati ...e victory at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] in 1794, which brought the [[Northwest Indian War]] to a close. Lieutenant Harrison was one of the signers of the
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• Directory:Ohio
  ...e part of the Old Northwest by the Ordinance of 1787. It became a separate territory in 1799. Columbus is the capital and Cleveland the largest city. Population === From the Settlement of the Old Northwest to Statehood ===
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• Directory:Oregon
  ...international boundary was fixed at the 49th parallel. In 1848 the Oregon Territory was created, including all of present-day Washington and Idaho. The state's Initial European interest in the region was aroused by the search for the Northwest Passage. Spanish seamen skirted the Pacific coast from the 16th to the 18th
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• Directory:Wisconsin
  ...region was ceded to Great Britain in 1763 and became part of the Northwest Territory in 1787. Madison is the capital and Milwaukee is the largest city. Populati ...et arrived at the site of Green Bay in 1634 in search of fur pelts and the Northwest Passage. He was followed by other traders and missionaries, among them Radi
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• Directory:Indiana
  ...ntrolled by France until 1763 and by Great Britain until 1783. The Indiana Territory was formed in 1800. Indianapolis is the capital and the largest city. Popul ...trol of the northwest. After the war, Indiana became part of the Northwest Territory in 1787.
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• Directory:Kansas
  ...admitted as the 34th state in [[Year Admitted:=1861|1861]]. Organized as a territory by the Kansas-[[Directory:Nebraska|Nebraska]] Act of 1854, it became a virt ...rriors destroyed the fort a year later. In 1762 France ceded the Louisiana territory to Spain. In 1800, the Treaty of Madrid gave the land back to France.
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• Directory:Idaho
  ...t Britain and the United States from 1818 to 1846. Idaho became a separate territory in 1863. Boise is the capital and the largest city. Population: [[Populatio ...came a state in 1859 and the eastern part of Idaho was added to Washington Territory. A Mormon outpost founded at Franklin in 1860 is considered the first perma
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• Directory:Alaska
  ...in [[Year Admitted:=1959|1959]] and is the largest state of the Union. The territory was purchased from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000 and was known as Seward's ...t were living at present day Yakutat. The cost of administering the Alaska territory put a significant drain on the Russian homeland. This cost and the disappea
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...(later the Territory of Louisiana and the [[Directory:Missouri|Missouri]] Territory). Baton Rouge is the capital and New Orleans the largest city. Population: ...in the northeast, and tribes of the Caddoan group inhabited the north and northwest.
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• Directory:Illinois
  ...ry became a possession of Virginia until 1787 when it joined the Northwest Territory under the government of the United States. In 1809, the Illinois Territory was created. The area figured prominently in frontier struggles during the
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...o the United States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Organized as a territory in 1812, Missouri's application for admission as a slaveholding state in 18 ...ed the whole area drained by the Mississippi River for France, calling the territory Louisiana , after King Louis XIV.
  17 KB (2,661 words) - 19:18, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Arkansas
  ...s acquired by the United States, and, in 1819, Arkansas was organized as a territory. Its northern, eastern and southern borders were the same as they are now, By 1836, the Arkansas Territory had the 60,000 residents required to become a state, and after writing an a
  13 KB (1,938 words) - 19:12, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Montana
  ...s among other western territories, the region was organized as the Montana Territory in 1864. Helena is the capital and Billings the largest city. Population: [ ...Washington, D.C., urging the creation of a new territory. Montana became a territory on May 26, 1864, and Edgerton served as its first governor.
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...tain]] then backed away and split the ownership of the [[Pacific Northwest|Northwest]] with Britain. He is even more famous for leading the successful [[Mexica ...ond-largest expansion of the nation's territory. Polk secured the [[Oregon Territory]] (including Washington, Oregon and Idaho), amounting to about 285,000 squa
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• Directory:Utah
  ...a large area, of which the present state was a part, was constituted Utah Territory and Young was appointed governor. The name Deseret [honeybee], chosen by th ...Union Pacific Railroad, which in 1869 joined the Central Pacific Railroad northwest of Ogden, completing the nation's first transcontinental railroad.
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• Directory:Minnesota
  Spain receives Louisiana Territory (includes Minnesota west of the Mississippi River) from France in compensat * Twin Cities-based Northwest Airlines was the first major airline to ban smoking on international flight
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• Directory:South Africa
  ...flat, and sparsely populated scrubland, Karoo, which is drier towards the northwest along the Namib desert.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa"
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...by British-led Native American forces. After the American conquest of the Northwest by an army (consisting mostly of western Virginians) under George Rogers Cl The Confederates made no serious endeavor to recover the territory W of the Allegheny Front, although guerrilla attacks persisted throughout t
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