The United States acquired Oregon as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Thomas Jefferson wanted to buy the city of New Orleans from France but Napoleon needed money and suggested the United States buy all of the French lands on North America for $15 million dollars. It became a state on February 14, 1859, and was the 33rd state to join the union.
The Northwest Territories were obtained by the Treaty that the US signed in Paris.
Northwest Territories is in Canada
Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Texas was annexed as a state to the union by giving up some of their northwest territories if the U.S. agreed to pay for its debts that Texas had acquired while it was a free republic.
It made it that the US government had direct control over territories.
Ceded territories
Quebec (I think)
Nunavut and the Northwest Territories don't border the US. Yukon borders the state of Alaska.
The Pacific islands which were acquired in 1867 as U. S. territories were the Midway Atoll. These islands are also known as the Midway Islands.
Northwest Territories was created in 1870.
The 2006 population of Northwest Territories was 41,464. The 2011 population of Northwest Territories was 41,462.