Territorial evolution of the United States: Difference between revisions

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}}</ref> at this point, the Constitution became the active governing document of those nine states having ratified the same (per [[Article Seven of the United States Constitution|Article VII]]).

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|The [[Northwest Territory]] was reorganized under the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]].<ref>{{usstat|1|50}}</ref>

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!scope=row|June 12, 1792

|The Delaware State enacted a [[Delaware Constitution of 1792|new constitution]], renaming itself the [[Delaware|State of Delaware]].<ref>{{cite book | title=The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWeHAAAAMAAJ | publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] | author = Thorpe, Francis Newton | year=1906 | page=568 | access-date=October 26, 2009 | isbn=0-89941-792-2}}</ref>

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!scope=row|August 3, 1795

|Representatives of the United States and the [[Western Confederacy]] sign the [[Treaty of Greenville]], ending the [[Northwest Indian War]] and ceding most of the modern state of [[Ohio]] to United States control.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Hemenway Eric |author2=Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians |title=Summer 1795: The Treaty of Greenville creates an uneasy peace |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/a-long-legacy.htm |access-date=21 April 2020}}</ref>

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!scope=row|February 29, 1796

|[[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] [[Jay Treaty|agreed]] to abandon several forts in the northwest that it still occupied, including [[Detroit]]. The Jay Treaty also provided for commissions to determine the border between the [[northwestern point of the Lake of the Woods]] and the [[Lake Itaska|source]] of the [[Mississippi River]], and which river to consider the [[St. Croix River (Maine–New Brunswick)|St. Croix River]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/jay.html |title=Jay's Treaty |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=November 2, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027175250/http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/jay.html |archive-date=October 27, 2015 }}</ref>

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!scope=row|April 12, 1900

|[[Puerto Rico|Porto Rico]] was [[Foraker Act|organized]] into a civil territory.<ref>{{USStat|31|77}}</ref>

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!scope=row|April 17, 1900

|The island of [[Tutuila]] was [[Treaty of Cession of Tutuila|formally ceded]] to the United States and added to [[American Samoa|Naval Station, Tutuila]].<ref name="asbar">{{cite web|url=http://www.asbar.org/archive/Newcode/treaties.htm |title=Treaties, Cessions, and Federal Laws |publisher=American Samoa Bar Association |access-date=May 11, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054025/http://www.asbar.org/archive/Newcode/treaties.htm |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref><ref>https://americansamoa.noaa.gov/about/history.html ''National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. History.'' americansamoa.noaa.gov. Retrieved January 18, 2018.</ref> As the United States had already claimed the island on February 19, 1900, no change is mapped. The [[Ratification Act of 1929|treaty would be ratified]] by Congress on February 20, 1929.

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!scope=row|June 14, 1900

!scope=row|July 16, 1904

|The [[Manuʻa]] islands were [[Treaty of Cession of Manuʻa|formally ceded]] to the United States and added to [[American Samoa|Naval Station, Tutuila]].<ref name="asbar"/> As the United States had already claimed the islands on February 19, 1900, no change is mapped. The [[Ratification Act of 1929|treaty would be ratified]] by Congress on February 20, 1929.

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!scope=row|December 12, 1904

|The "Taft Agreement" was made with [[Panama]] on December 3, with one of its sections refining the maritime boundary of the harbor of [[Panama City]] and the [[Panama Canal Zone]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Hearings concerning estimates for construction of the Isthmian Canal for the fiscal year 1909 | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | url=https://archive.org/details/hearingsconcern01tawngoog | page=[https://archive.org/details/hearingsconcern01tawngoog/page/n408 396] | access-date=July 6, 2015| last1=Committee On Appropriations | first1=United States. Congress. House | last2=Tawney | first2=James A | year=1908 }}</ref><ref>H.R. Doc. No. 458 part 10, 58th Cong., 2nd Sess. (1904), pp. 936–941 (Specifically for this citation, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x-o3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA938 sec. 5 on page 938])</ref> It became effective December 12.

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!scope=row|February 10, 1905

|Under Article II of the [[Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty|1903 Treaty]], the United States expropriated from [[Panama]] several areas around the mouth of the [[Rio Chagres]], annexing them to the [[Panama Canal Zone]].<ref name="McCain">{{cite book| title=The United States and the Republic of Panama (2nd printing) |first=William D. |last=McCain| location= New York |publisher=Russell & Russell |year=1965 |

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!scope=row|December 8, 1915

|The United States expropriated from [[Panama]] a triangle of land, which included the historic [[Fort San Lorenzo]], between the [[Rio Chagres]], [[Caribbean Sea]] and the [[Panama Canal Zone]], to which it was annexed.<ref name="McCain"/>

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!scope=row|January 17, 1916

|[[Navassa Island]] was formally claimed for lighthouse purposes.<ref>{{usstat|39|1763}}</ref>

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!scope=row|August 29, 1916

|The [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippines]] were [[Jones Law (Philippines)|reorganized]] to provide more autonomous government.<ref>{{usstat|39|545}}</ref>

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!scope=row|July 18, 1927

|The United States expropriated from [[Panama]] another 33 hectares of land on the islands of [[Taboga Island|Taboga]] and Taboguilla and annexed them to the [[Panama Canal Zone]].<ref name="McCain"/>

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!scope=row|October 26, 1927

|Two [[Banco Convention of 1905|bancos]] along the [[Colorado River]] were ceded from [[Mexico]] to [[Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibwc.gov/Files/Minutes/Min99.pdf |title=Minute 99: Re accretions lands on Colorado River—also Farmers and Fain Bancos.Decision reached. |publisher=[[International Boundary and Water Commission]] |date=October 26, 1927 |access-date=January 12, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132221/http://www.ibwc.gov/Files/Minutes/Min99.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref><ref name="bancos">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibwc.state.gov/Treaties_Minutes/Minutes.html |title=Minutes between the United States and Mexican Sections of the IBWC |publisher=[[International Boundary and Water Commission]] |access-date=January 6, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713015418/http://www.ibwc.state.gov/Treaties_Minutes/Minutes.html |archive-date=July 13, 2015 }}</ref>

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!scope=row|December 5, 1927

!scope=row|September 24, 1928

|The United States expropriated from [[Panama]] three hectares of land at ''El Cerro de Doscientos Pies'' ("200-Foot Hill") near Las Minas Bay and annexed it to the [[Panama Canal Zone]].<ref name="McCain"/><ref name="CZmap"/>

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!scope=row|July 22, 1930

|The United States expropriated from [[Panama]] 25 hectares on Jicarita Island and 60 hectares at Punta Morro de Puercos and annexed them to the [[Panama Canal Zone]].<ref name="McCain"/>

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!scope=row|April 15, 1931

!scope=row|December 30, 1966

|Land on [[Diego Garcia]] in the [[Indian Ocean]] was leased from the [[United Kingdom]] for use as a military base.<ref>Van Zandt p. 43</ref>

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!scope=row|April 25, 1971

|The lease of the [[Corn Islands]] from [[Nicaragua]] was terminated.<ref name="doi-former"/>

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!scope=row|September 1, 1972

!scope=row|June 1, 1995

|The maritime border between the United States and territories of the [[United Kingdom]] in the [[Caribbean Sea]] was defined.<ref name="maritime"/><ref>[https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201913/v1913.pdf Treaty on the delimitation in the Caribbean of a maritime boundary relating to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Anguilla] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331131528/https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201913/v1913.pdf |date=March 31, 2016}}, signed May 11, 1993; [[United Nations Treaty Series|UNTS]] 32636; accessed July 1, 2015</ref><ref>[https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201913/v1913.pdf Treaty on the delimitation in the Caribbean of a maritime boundary relating to Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331131528/https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201913/v1913.pdf |date=March 31, 2016}}, signed May 11, 1993; [[United Nations Treaty Series|UNTS]] 32637; accessed July 1, 2015</ref>

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!scope=row|January 16, 1997

|[[Navassa Island]] was transferred to the [[United States Department of the Interior]].<ref name="doi-navassa">{{cite web|url=https://www.doi.gov/oia/islands/navassa |title=Navassa Island |date=12 June 2015 |publisher=[[U.S. Department of the Interior]] [[Office of Insular Affairs]] |access-date=July 15, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815201647/https://www.doi.gov/oia/islands/navassa |archive-date=August 15, 2016 }}</ref><ref>[http://elips.doi.gov/ELIPS/0/doc/259/Page1.aspx Secretary's Orders 3205: Administration of Navassa Island]{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, [[U.S. Secretary of the Interior|United States Secretary of the Interior]] [[Bruce Babbitt]], signed January 16, 1997, accessed June 30, 2015</ref>

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!scope=row|November 13, 1997

|The maritime border between the United States and [[Mexico]] was defined.<ref name="maritime"/><ref>[https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%202143/v2143.pdf Treaty on maritime boundaries between the United Mexican States and the United States of America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140922/https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%202143/v2143.pdf |date=March 4, 2016}}, signed May 4, 1978; [[United Nations Treaty Series|UNTS]] 37399; accessed June 30, 2015</ref>

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