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- Mississippi_Territory abstract "The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 7, 1798, until December 10, 1817, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Mississippi.The Mississippi Territory was expanded in 1804 and again in 1812 until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee. (Georgia gave up the northern portion in 1802, and the Gulf Coast region was acquired from Spain.) Originally Mississippi Territory included what is now Alabama, and 9 months before Mississippi was admitted into the Union in 1817, the Alabama Territory to the east was separated out on March 3.On December 10, 1817, Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th state.The Mississippi Territory was organized in 1798 from land that had been disputed by the U.S. and Spain until Spain ceded its claim with the Treaty of Madrid initially signed between the two countries' representatives in 1795. This area extended from 31° N latitude to 32°28' North, or approximately the southern half of the present states of Alabama and Mississippi.The state of Georgia maintained a claim over almost the entire area of the present states of Alabama and Mississippi (from 31° N to 35° N) until it surrendered its claim in 1802 following the Yazoo land scandal. Two years later, Congress extended the boundaries of the Mississippi Territory to include all of the Georgia cession.The final boundary between Georgia and Mississippi Territory was defined to follow the Chattahoochee River north from the border with Spanish Florida. However the Chattahoochee's upper course veers northeast, deep into Georgia. So the boundary was defined to follow the river until it turned northeast, and then to follow a straight line north to the 35th parallel (whose role in state borders dates back to the split of North and South Carolina in 1730). The line was not run straight north but rather angled to meet the northern border of the territory one-third of the way west, leaving the other two-thirds for two future states (Alabama and Mississippi—though their angled boundary ended up stopping at the Tennessee River).In 1812, the United States annexed to the Mississippi Territory the Mobile District of West Florida, claiming that it was included in the Louisiana Purchase, although Spain disputed this and maintained its claim over the area. In the following year, General James Wilkinson occupied this district with a military force, the Spanish commandant offering no resistance. This annexation gave to Mississippi Territory the coast of the Gulf of Mexico between the Perdido River and the Pearl River (comprising what is now part of Alabama).On March 3, 1817, the Mississippi Territory was divided, when the western portion became the state of Mississippi, and the eastern became the Alabama Territory, with St. Stephens, on the Tombigbee River, as the temporary seat of government.Congress delineated the boundary between Mississippi and Alabama by dividing the territory into approximately equal sized parts, similar in size to Georgia. The agriculturally productive lands were divided by a straight line running south from the northwest corner of Washington County (as it was defined at the time) to the Gulf of Mexico. The border north of this point was angled eastward in order to keep Mississippi and Alabama roughly equal in size. At its northern end this angled border follows a short section of the Tennessee River. Congress chose this boundary because if the straight line had been run all the way to the Tennessee border Mississippi would have jurisdiction over a small piece of hilly land cut off from the rest of the state by the wide Tennessee River.".
- Mississippi_Territory governmentType Organized_incorporated_territories_of_the_United_States.
- Mississippi_Territory thumbnail Flag_of_Georgia_non_official.svg?width=300.
- Mississippi_Territory wikiPageExternalLink mississippi-territory.
- Mississippi_Territory wikiPageExternalLink 1903377.
- Mississippi_Territory wikiPageID "505982".
- Mississippi_Territory wikiPageRevisionID "602641810".
- Mississippi_Territory commonName "Mississippi Territory".
- Mississippi_Territory conventionalLongName "Territory of Mississippi".
- Mississippi_Territory dateEnd "--12-10".
- Mississippi_Territory dateEvent "1802".
- Mississippi_Territory dateEvent "1804".
- Mississippi_Territory dateEvent "1812".
- Mississippi_Territory dateEvent "1817-03-03".
- Mississippi_Territory dateStart "--04-07".
- Mississippi_Territory event "Alabama Territory created".
- Mississippi_Territory event "Georgia cession added to Mississippi Territory".
- Mississippi_Territory event "Georgia recognizes its present borders".
- Mississippi_Territory event "Mobile District annexed".
- Mississippi_Territory eventEnd Mississippi.
- Mississippi_Territory flagP "BandMercante1785.svg".
- Mississippi_Territory flagP "Flag of Georgia non official.svg".
- Mississippi_Territory flagP "bonnieblue.svg".
- Mississippi_Territory flagS "US flag 20 stars.svg".
- Mississippi_Territory governmentType "Organized incorporated territory".
- Mississippi_Territory hasPhotoCollection Mississippi_Territory.
- Mississippi_Territory imageFlag "US flag 15 stars.svg".
- Mississippi_Territory imageMap "Mississippi Territory dark.gif".
- Mississippi_Territory nation "the United States".
- Mississippi_Territory p "Free and Independent Republic of West Florida".
- Mississippi_Territory p "West Florida".
- Mississippi_Territory p "Yazoo lands".
- Mississippi_Territory s "Alabama Territory".
- Mississippi_Territory s "Mississippi".
- Mississippi_Territory subdivision Organized_incorporated_territories_of_the_United_States.
- Mississippi_Territory yearEnd "1817".
- Mississippi_Territory yearStart "1798".
- Mississippi_Territory subject Category:Mississippi_Territory.
- Mississippi_Territory type AdministrativeRegion.
- Mississippi_Territory type Place.
- Mississippi_Territory type PopulatedPlace.
- Mississippi_Territory type Region.
- Mississippi_Territory type Wikidata:Q532.
- Mississippi_Territory type AdministrativeArea.
- Mississippi_Territory type Place.
- Mississippi_Territory type Country.
- Mississippi_Territory type Location.
- Mississippi_Territory comment "The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 7, 1798, until December 10, 1817, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Mississippi.The Mississippi Territory was expanded in 1804 and again in 1812 until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee.".
- Mississippi_Territory label "Mississippi Territory".
- Mississippi_Territory label "Mississippi-Territorium".
- Mississippi_Territory label "Territoire du Mississippi".
- Mississippi_Territory label "Territorio de Misisipi".
- Mississippi_Territory label "Território do Mississippi".
- Mississippi_Territory label "Территория Миссисипи".
- Mississippi_Territory label "ミシシッピ準州".
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- Mississippi_Territory sameAs Territorio_de_Misisipi.
- Mississippi_Territory sameAs Territoire_du_Mississippi.
- Mississippi_Territory sameAs ミシシッピ準州.
- Mississippi_Territory sameAs 미시시피_준주.
- Mississippi_Territory sameAs Território_do_Mississippi.
- Mississippi_Territory sameAs m.02jk19.
- Mississippi_Territory sameAs Q660384.
- Mississippi_Territory sameAs Q660384.
- Mississippi_Territory wasDerivedFrom Mississippi_Territory?oldid=602641810.
- Mississippi_Territory depiction Flag_of_Georgia_non_official.svg.
- Mississippi_Territory isPrimaryTopicOf Mississippi_Territory.
- Mississippi_Territory name "Mississippi Territory".
- Mississippi_Territory name "Territory of Mississippi".