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** Iowa Territory ( land between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers ) was split from Wisconsin Territory 1838 and became a state in 1846.
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** and Territory
** Mexican – American War formally ends, making the unincorporated, unorganized California Territory a provisional official possession: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest United States.
** The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands ( on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches are returned to the Seychelles ).
** The British government admits the former Hudson's Bay Company territory of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada.
** U. S. Congress passes law to split the Mississippi Territory, after Mississippi drafts a constitution, creating the Alabama Territory effective in August.
** organized Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty.
** Texas dropped its claim to land north of the 32nd parallel north and west of the 103rd meridian west in favor of New Mexico Territory, and north of the 36 ° 30 ' parallel north and east of the 103rd meridian west which became unorganized territory.
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