Historic regions of the United States Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
These are historic regions of the United States, meaning regions that were legal entities in the past, or which the average modern American would no longer immediately recognize as a regional description.
The following are land grants, cessions, purchases, defined districts (official or otherwise) or named settlements made within an area that was already part of the original 13 colonies or a state of the Union or U.S. territory, including major land acquisitions (of varying degrees of legality) from Native Americans that did not involve international treaties or state cessions.
Colonial Areas Not Among the Original 13
Main articles: Thirteen Colonies, European colonization of the Americas, British colonization of the AmericasRegions Ceded, Annexed or Purchased from States or Foreign Powers
Main articles: United States territorial acquisitions, History of United States imperialism, Manifest DestinyFormerly Independent Nations Now States
Internal Land Grants, Cessions, Purchases, Districts, Claims or Settlements
Former Organized U.S. Territories (Chronological)
The following is a list of organized U.S. territories that have become states, in the order of the date organized.
- Northwest Territory (1789–1803)
- Southwest Territory (1790–1796)
- Mississippi Territory (1798–1817)
- Indiana Territory (1800–1816)
- Orleans Territory (1804–1812)
- Michigan Territory (1805–1837)
- Louisiana Territory (1805–1812), preceded by District of Louisiana
- Illinois Territory (1809–1818)
- Missouri Territory (1812–1821)
- Alabama Territory (1817–1819)
- Arkansas Territory (1819–1836)
- Florida Territory (1822–1845)
- Wisconsin Territory (1836–1848)
- Iowa Territory (1838–1846)
- Oregon Territory (1848–1859)
- Minnesota Territory (1849–1858)
- New Mexico Territory (1850–1912)
- Utah Territory (1850–1896)
- Washington Territory (1853–1889)
- Kansas Territory (1854–1861)
- Nebraska Territory (1854–1867)
- Colorado Territory (1861–1876)
- Nevada Territory (1861–1864)
- Dakota Territory (1861–1889)
- Arizona Territory (1863–1912), which was also claimed as a Confederate Territory during the Civil War
- Idaho Territory (1863–1890)
- Montana Territory (1864–1889)
- Wyoming Territory (1868–1890)
- Oklahoma Territory (1890–1907), preceded, in part, by Indian Territory
- Hawaii Territory (1898–1959), preceded by Republic of Hawaii
- Alaska Territory (1912–1959), preceded by Department of Alaska and District of Alaska
Possessions and Overseas Territories Subsequently Retroceded
Unrecognized
- Conch Republic
- Confederate States of America
- Free City of Tri-Insula
- Kingdom of Beaver Island
- Long Republic
- Republic of California
- Republic of Indian Stream
- Republic of Madawaska
- Republic of Vermont
- Republic of West Florida
- State of Deseret
- State of Franklin
- State of Jefferson
- State of Kanawha
- State of Sequoyah
- State of Westmoreland
- Territory of Cimarron
- Territory of Jefferson
- Transoconee Republic
- Westsylvania
Nicknames
See also
External links
- Chronological List of Territories 1787-1890
- Official Name and Status History of the several States and U.S. Territories
- Indian Land Cessions in the United States, United States Digital Map Archives
- LOC: Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894, United States Serial Set, Number 4015
- United States Territorial Maps 1775-1920
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