Map: Growth of the United States to 1853 -- North America,United States,Original Thirteen Colonies,Florida Cession,United States Treaty of Paris,Louisiana Purchase,Texas Annexation,Gadsden Purchase,Mexican

Map: French, Spanish, and English Settlements to 1776 -- North ...
Maps.com (Historical Maps);  January 1, 2002 ;     151 words ...00-00-0000 French, Spanish, and English Settlements to 1776 -- North America,United States,Canada,French Louisiana,Texas,Mexico,New Mexico,California, Florida,Original Thirteen Colonies Map

Encyclopedia entry: court system in the United States
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... court system in the United States judicial branches ... judiciary, each of the original Thirteen Colonies already had ... judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested ... district courts are the United States courts of appeals ...

Article: Allegania the beautiful. (name for the United ...
The American Enterprise;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... infelicity of the name "United States." What could we ... collocation of words,'The United States of North America ... back-bone of the original thirteen states: and the dividing ... be unchanged in a United States of Allegania. The ...

Encyclopedia entry: Public Lands
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States;      534 words ... ... Public Lands Nearly all of the territory in the United States outside the original thirteen states once comprised public lands of the federal ... Territory and other Property belonging to the United States.” The Supreme Court has read the ...

Chapter 6: Michigan and the old northwest, 1783-1805.
Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... were being reached by the United States. Five of the original thirteen states had claims on all ... ceded its lands to the United States, its representatives ... part of their lands to the United States, Congress was faced with ...

Article: NI prize crossword.
New Internationalist;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... by the R Po (8) 15 Greek island group, the S part of which includes the Dodecanese (8) 16 One of the original thirteen United States, capital Dover (8) 18 Semitic peoples of a country formed in 1948 (8) 19 Largest of Japan's Ryuku ...

Article: A Confederacy Of . . . ?("Look Away! A History of the Confederate ...
National Review;  May 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... all of France and England combined, as large as all of Russia west of Moscow, and double the size of the original thirteen United States. All this occurred in the face of -- and in spite of -- the fundamental stain of slavery. Yet, as William ...