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The Missouri Territory was a historic, organized territory in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It was originally known as the Louisiana Territory
Louisiana Territory

Louisiana Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States consisting of the portion of the Louisiana Purchase that was not partitioned off into Territory of Orleans, which later became the state of Louisiana....
 and was renamed on June 4, 1812 to avoid confusion with the state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Louisiana
Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
 which joined the Union in 1812. The Arkansas Territory
Arkansas Territory

The Arkansas Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, until June 15, 1836, when the territory was admitted to the United States as the state Arkansas, the 25th U.S....
 was separated from the Missouri Territory in 1819.






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Missouri Territory
The Missouri Territory was a historic, organized territory in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It was originally known as the Louisiana Territory
Louisiana Territory

Louisiana Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States consisting of the portion of the Louisiana Purchase that was not partitioned off into Territory of Orleans, which later became the state of Louisiana....
 and was renamed on June 4, 1812 to avoid confusion with the state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Louisiana
Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
 which joined the Union in 1812. The Arkansas Territory
Arkansas Territory

The Arkansas Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, until June 15, 1836, when the territory was admitted to the United States as the state Arkansas, the 25th U.S....
 was separated from the Missouri Territory in 1819. The southern and western boundaries with Spanish Texas
Spanish Texas

Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of New Spain from 1690 until 1821. Although Spain nominally claimed ownership of the territory, which comprised part of modern-day Texas, including the land north of the Medina River and Nueces Rivers, the Spanish did not attempt to colonize the area until after discovering evidence of the fail...
 and New Mexico
Santa Fe de Nuevo México

Santa Fe de Nuevo M?xico was a province of New Spain that existed from the late 16th century up through the early 19th century. It was centered on the upper valley of the Rio Grande, in an area that included most of the present-day U.S....
 were also defined that year in the Adams-Onís Treaty
Adams-Onís Treaty

The Adams-On?s Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, settled a border dispute in North America between the United States and Spain....
. The state of Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
 was separated out from the territory in August 10, 1821.

The remaining portion, consisting of the present states of Iowa
Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
, Nebraska
Nebraska

Nebraska is a U.S. state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Western United States.Nebraska probably gets its name from the archaic Chiwere language words ?? Br?sge or the Omaha-Ponca language N? Bth?ska meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state....
, the Dakotas
The Dakotas

The Dakotas is a collective term used around the world that refers to the U.S. state of North Dakota and South Dakota together. The term has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory, and is continued to be used to describe the collective heritage, culture, geography, fauna, sociology,the economy, and even diet among the two st...
; most of Kansas
Kansas

The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland"....
, Wyoming
Wyoming

The State of Wyoming is a sparsely populated U.S. state in the Northwestern United States of the United States. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the easternmost section of the state is a high altitude prairie region known as the High Plains ....
, and Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
; plus parts of Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
 and Minnesota
Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
, effectively became unorganized territory
Unorganized territory

An unorganized territory is a region of land, generally with less self-governmental powers than other regions, controlled by a specific government....
 after Missouri became a state. In 1834, the portion east of the Missouri River
Missouri River

The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and the longest river in the United States of America. The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison River, Jefferson River, and Gallatin River rivers in Montana, and flows through Missouri River Valley south and east into the Mississippi north of St....
 was attached to the Michigan Territory
Michigan Territory

Michigan Territory was an organized territory of the United States in the early 19th century, between June 30, 1805 and January 26, 1837, at which point it became Michigan, the 26th U.S....
. Over time, various territories
Organized incorporated territories of the United States

Organized incorporated territories are those territories of the United States that are both incorporated territory and organized territory . Through most of U.S....
 were created in whole or in part from its remaining area: Iowa
Iowa Territory

Iowa Territory was an organized territory of the United States from July 4, 1838 until December 28, 1846 when the southeastern portion of it was separated to become Iowa, the 29th state....
 (1838), Minnesota
Minnesota Territory

Minnesota Territory was an organized territory of the United States from March 3 1849 to May 11 1858, when Minnesota was admitted as the List of U.S....
 (1849), Kansas
Kansas Territory

The Territory of Kansas was an organized territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when Kansas became the 34th U.S....
 and Nebraska
Nebraska Territory

The Territory of Nebraska was a historic organized territory of the United States from May 30, 1854 until March 1, 1867 when Nebraska became the 37th U.S....
 (both 1854), Colorado
Colorado Territory

The Territory of Colorado was an organized territory of the United States of America that existed from 28 Feb 1861, to 1 Aug 1876. The boundaries of the territory were identical with those of the current State of Colorado....
 and Dakota
Dakota Territory

Dakota Territory was the name of an Territories of the United States of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1889. The territory consisted of the northernmost part of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of the United States....
 (both 1861), Idaho
Idaho Territory

Idaho Territory was an organized territory of the United States which existed from 1863 to 1890....
 (1863), Montana
Montana Territory

File:MontanaTerritory1879.jpgThe Montana Territory was an organized territory of the United States that existed between 1864 and 1889.The territory was organized out of the existing Idaho Territory by Act of United States Congress and signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on May 28, 1864....
 (1864), and Wyoming
Wyoming Territory

The Territory of Wyoming was an organized territory of the United States that existed from 1868 until its admission to the Union as the State of Wyoming in 1890....
 (1868).

See also

  • Historic regions of the United States
    Historic regions of the United States

    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....