Northern Territory

Currently, the United States holds jurisdiction over 14 territories. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, a territory is “an area of land that belongs to or is controlled by a government” or one of the parts of the United States that is not a state. These territories include regions like American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and various others. Being a colony also means that the citizens or habitants of these regions do not enjoy all the…

United States at a very transformative time during the 1800’s to 1850’s. The new devolving economy in the Western Territories will be heavily influenced by the fermenting conflicts between the North and South. The fast-growing West will need to decide if it will follow the industrial North or will they be more influenced by the Southern States’ continued agriculture and slavery. Northern and Western factory owners are employing immigrants that are coming from abroad. They need this new influx…

On February 19th, 2015 cyclone Lam had finally made landfall between Millingimbi and Elcho island in the northern territory as a category 4 cyclone. Cyclone lam had started off as a monsoon trough on February 12th over the Coral sea and moved over the Cape York peninsula and moved to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Due to warm waters and favourable outflow the monsoon trough became a category 1 cyclone on the 16th of February and was named cyclone Lam by the Bureau of Meteorology. Cyclone Lam started…

the two territories to vote if they desired to allow slavery or abolish slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois who wanted to build a transcontinental railroad through Chicago. However, it violated the Missouri compromise which prohibited the practice of slavery on the Louisiana Purchase north of the latitude 36°30′. With the purpose of increasing votes and winning a majority, the north and south crossed the border into the two territories to…

force of less than a hundred soldiers found themselves in hostile territory. Maj. Anderson’s resolution was to relocate to a nearby post called Fort Sumter. They did so on December 26 and held position. Just after the inauguration of President Lincoln on March 4, 1861, Anderson reported that he had only a six week’s supplies left in the fort, and the Confederates where getting antsy with a foreign force being in their territory. April 11, 1861, Confederate Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard…

century idea and belief that it was America’s destiny to spread all the way from the east coast to the west coast. Manifest Destiny, however, was not an objectively good idea. To many, such as Native Americans, Latin American Government Officials, and Northern Abolitionists, the idea was infuriating and seen as unjust, but Americans disregarded these sentiments and kept migrating west. When Andrew Jackson was president, there were about 250,000 Native Americans east of the Mississippi…

slavery he want free speech,free territory,free homes.The south had slavery labor and the south depend on the slaves unlike the north they had factories and a bigger population.The Southern States seceded from the Union led to the American Civil War because the northern states had developed an intricate railway system and shipping industry to transport the manufactured goods,southern states didn’t have free speech and free home and free territory like the northern states and abraham lincoln was…

In the Northern States slavery was allowed but it wasn’t as vital to the North’s economy as it was to the South’s. Slaves that lived in the North were often domestic servants to small farmers and rural ironworks. The populations of the slaves themselves were very small, because Northern farms were not large-scale enterprises that focused on producing one cash crop; they had required fewer slaves to do the work and were generally smaller. The Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states had legally…

America's history, our leaders did the best they could to prevent conflict amongst themselves. Northern and southern states had to constantly find a middle ground. However, each compromise was only temporary. No one wanted to make a firm decision on sensitive issues that divided the country, such as slavery. The American Civil War was a result of years of neglect to truly resolve the differences between northern and southern states. In 1819, Missouri applied for statehood. Missouri…

and state level, ultimately giving them power and control over Congress, the Supreme Court, and the government. The United States’ victory in the Mexican War added half a million square miles to the United States, more than a third of its prewar territory. There was a question over whether or not the newly acquired property of California would be a free or a slave state. Congress finally reached agreed to the Compromise of 1850, admitting California as a free state but also gave the South a much…