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What brutal event prompted the US Supreme Court to decide how new territories were to be handled?
The Uprising in the Phillipines
How did the territorial acquisitions of the US contribute to the onset of the Civil War?
Southern slave states saw that the new western US territories might not be slave states. If so, then in the US Congress, they would soon be under represented. Without new territories to be settled, then the South had a chance to remain in equal parity in the US Congress.
How did the ratification of the us constitution affect the northwest territories?
It made it that the US government had direct control over territories.
How did the US govern the Philippines Cuba and Puerto Rico?
They were governed as territories.
How did the US gain northwest territories?
For the most part they bought the territories. This allows the US to expand to other parts of the world.
Who governs the many territories of the US?
US territories - such as the US Virgin Islands and Guam, as opposed to the states of the union and the District of Columbia - are administered by the Department of the Interior. It sounds rather ironic that the Department of the Interior should administer lands which are basically exterior to US boundaries, but that goes back to the administration of territories within the United states before they were admitted as states.
What new US territories of the Philippines and Hawaii provided new?
Naval bases
The new US territories of the Philippines and Hawaii provided new what?
Naval bases
What did The new US territories of the Philippines and Hawaii provide new?
Naval bases
What did the US give to Mexico in order to keep the territories of New Mexico and California?
Nothing: the US took those territories by the means of war.
What two territories belong to the US?
Texas & New Mexico.
What did the new US territories of the Philippines and Hawaii provide?
Naval bases
What did The new US territories of the Philippines and Hawaii provided new As head of?
Naval bases. Apex :)
What does a person born in any US territory automatically become?
People born in US territories become citizens of the US. When the US western border stretched from the Mississippi River to the California coast, new Americans born in those territories added to the "citizen population".
How were the new US territories related to slavery?
maddy faulkner and jake spencer
Who governs US territories admits new states and regulates immigration?
congress
What term describes the idea that the US should claim new territories?
Expansionism
