Mississippi Territory
This article is about the specific polity Mississippi Territory and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States. On December 10, 1817, the western half of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Mississippi. The eastern half was redesignated as the Alabama Territory.
Establishment
April 1802: Georgia ceded its western half, known as the Yazoo Lands, to the federal government. At the same time, the federal government ceded to Georgia the eastern portion of the land previously ceded by South Carolina, though in reality Georgia technically already held title to the land, as the description of the earlier cession was based on an erroneous understanding of geography.
October 1802: U.S. treaty concluded at Fort Confederation on Tombigby River with the Choctaw.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Was a war between the United States of America and Great Britain. Tensions originated in long-standing differences over territorial expansion in North America and British support for Native American tribes who opposed U.S. colonial settlement in the Northwest Territory.
1.1.Southern theatre (War of 1812)
Was the southern theatre of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom.
April 1813: The Mississippi Territory annexed the Mobile area, formerly part of West Florida, from the Spanish in March 1813.
February 1815: Second Battle of Fort Bawyer.
February 1815: HMS Brazen brought news of the Treaty of Ghent, and the British abandoned the Gulf Coast.
October 1804: The Orleans Territory was organized from the Louisiana Purchase south of 33° north, with the remainder being designated the District of Louisiana and placed under the jurisdiction of Indiana Territory.
November 1805: U.S. treaty concluded at Mount Dexter in the Choctaw country with the Choctaw.
January 1806: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Cherokee.
November 1808: The lucrative fur trade stimulated the growth of St. Louis and attracted settlers there. The US and Osage signed their first treaty on November 10, 1808, by which the Osage made a major cession of land in present-day Missouri. Under the Osage Treaty, they ceded 52,480,000 acres (212,400 km2) to the federal government
August 1814: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
September 1816: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
September 1816: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
October 1816: U.S. treaty concluded at the Choctaw trading house with the Choctaw.
March 1817: In 1817, Alabama Territory was established from the eastern portion of Mississippi Territory.
December 1817: 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 western half of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Mississippi and the eastern half became the Alabama Territory.
Disestablishment
March 1817: In 1817, Alabama Territory was established from the eastern portion of Mississippi Territory.
December 1817: 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 western half of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Mississippi and the eastern half became the Alabama Territory.
Selected Sources
Guerre de 1812. Bibliotheque et Archives Canada. 17 January 2006. https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2Fmilitaire%2F025002-2000-f.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url
Order of States’ Admission. Arkansas Secretary of State. Retrieved on 3 April 2024 on https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/education/arkansas-history/history-of-the-flag/order-of-states-admission
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 662
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 672
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 684
War of 1812 Military Actions by State. National Park Service. Retrieved on 3 April on https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nps.gov%2Fhistory%2Fhps%2Fabpp%2F1812list.htm#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url
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