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The last purchase that defined the border with Mexico was made in 1853 west of the Rio Grande and south of the Gila River and is known as the Gadsden Purchase. That will not be the end of the story since rivers do change their course from time to time and the courts are required to decide the case. Geographic irregularities include:

  • The Northwest Angle.
  • The Delaware Wedge.
  • Iowa's Carter Lake.
  • The Toledo War.
  • The Massachusetts Jog.
  • Vermont's Alburgh.
  • Point Roberts, Washington.
  • The Country Club Dispute which went to the Supreme Court in 1927.
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What established the borders of the lower 48 states?

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase...the actual borders of each state had been established at different times later on....but those 2 treaties established the national borders.


What are the two states that are not connected to the lower 48 states and what are their borders?

Alaska and Hawaii. Alaska borders Canada. Hawaii is a group of islands located in the Pacific.


Which state in ''lower 48'' borders only one other states?

Maine


What borders the United states to the east?

Technically, Canada as it borders Alaska to the east. However, the Atlantic Ocean is to the east of the Contiguous US (Lower 48).


What country borders the United States to the east?

Technically, Canada as it borders Alaska to the east. However, the Atlantic Ocean is to the east of the Contiguous US (Lower 48).


Gadsden Purchase?

(1853) U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico; set the current borders of the contiguous United States (the U.S. states, minus Hawaii, Alaska, and commonwealth of Puerto Rico)


Which states in the continental United states borders the pacific ocean?

They are Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California.(Alaska is continental, but it is not contiguous with the "lower 48.")


What two states are not apart of the contiguous states?

Contiguous means that their borders are touching the continental US. Alaska and Hawaii do not touch the mainland.


What is an example of Congress using legislation to explain the meaning of a part of the Constitution?

Congress established the lower federal courts


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Lower mantle


What Canadian province borders the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the East?

The only Canadian province which borders Michigan is Ontario.


Why is most of Canada's trade done with the United States of America?

The fact that Canada borders on the United States means that shipping costs are lower than from other countries. Also, the US dollar is usually stronger than the Canadian dollar meaning that goods can be bought by Americans at effectively lower prices in Canada than in the United States.