And for those who use Google Maps in a country or territory beyond the U.S. and Mexico, they will see both names at the same time, with Gulf of America in parentheses. In the latest Google Maps ...

(The Michigan Territory is already free territory under the 1787 Northwest Ordinance.) 1794: Richard Allen establishes the AME Church in Philadelphia. Philadelphia flourishes as a center of the ...

To fulfill its Manifest Destiny, especially following the discovery of gold in California, America was making ... to Kansas to secure it as a free territory. By the summer of 1855, approximately ...

While obtaining territory from another country would be an unusual move for a modern U.S. president, much of America’s states and territories today came through purchase or expansion.