Image:U.S. Territorial Acquisitions.png

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Description

This image depicts the Territorial acquisitions of the United States, such as the Thirteen Colonies, the Louisiana Purchase, British and Spanish Cession, and so on.

Errors

This map uses incorrect terms in that Great Britain didn't exist as a political entity in 1818 or 1846, having been superseded by the United Kingdom following the Act of Union with Ireland in 1801.

The map shows a portion of the en:Isle of Orleans as part of the West Florida (Spanish Cession) 1819, but the area south of Lake Pontchartrain and east of the Amite River were part of the Louisiana Purchase 1803 (from France).
Source

National Atlas of the United States

Date
Author

United States federal government ( en:User:Black and White converted it from JPEG to PNG and retouched it)
Permission
Public domain This map was obtained from an edition of the National Atlas of the United States. Like almost all works of the U.S. federal government, works from the National Atlas are in the public domain.
Online access: NationalAtlas.gov | 1970 print edition: Library of Congress, Perry-Castañeda Library
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  • Louisiana Purchase
  • History of the United States
  • Territorial acquisitions of the United States
  • Historic regions of the United States
  • Talk:Île d'Orléans
  • United States
  • History of western civilization
  • User:Kabbalah
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