The end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 and the roughly 500,000 square miles (1.3 million square km) of new territory that the United States gained as a result of it added a new sense of urgency to the disp
As gold and silver were discovered in the mountains, Congress named the territory Utah after local Native Americans. The Utah territory was carved up, with some forming Nevada, some added to Colorado and some to Wyoming. Utah became the 45th state in 1896., Utah’s mountains, high plateaus...
Rhode Island was the first of the original 13 colonies to renounce allegiance to Great Britain in 1776 and was the last to ratify the Constitution in 1790, insisting that the Bill of Rights be added., Following the American Revolution, the country's first successful water-powered cotton ...
The United States Census Bureau released the results of the 2010 Census on 2010-12-21. The table shows the resident population of each state as of 2010-04-01. Under Population history, I have added data from all censuses back to the first one in 1790....
The flag of the United States is one of the most well known flags in the whole world. There are thirteen stripes on the flag of the United States. The history of the first American flag came about in 1818 when the first United States Congress deemed it w
In 1818 the Territory of Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a state. That application had not been acted upon in 1819 when Representative Tallmadge, of New York, proposed an amendment to the effect “that the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, ...
Flag:TheIllinois flagis a simple representation of the Great Seal of Illinois against a white background. In 1969, the General Assembly voted to add the word “ILLINOIS” under the Great Seal of the flag. The State’s name was added to the flag to ensure that people not familiar with th...
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The Utah territory was carved up, with some forming Nevada, some added to Colorado and some to Wyoming. Utah became the 45th state in 1896., Utah’s mountains, high plateaus and deserts – containing the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, at the state capital of Salt...
#14 in Energy #42 in Best States Overall #29 in Infrastructure The land that became Oklahoma was added to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and the government spent much of the 19th century relocating Native American tribes from the Southeast to this region. In ...