Description: A map of the United States in 1840, showing the frontier line, indicate by the thick black line. The map shows the States east of the frontier of the Mississippi, south of the frontier line in Michigan and Maine, and north of the frontier line in Florida, the territories of Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Florida at the time, the Oregon Country occupied jointly by Great Britain and the United States, and the Texas Territory independent from Mexico since 1836.
Place Names: Growth of Nation, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indian Territory, Iowa Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mexico, Michigan, Missouri Territory, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pen
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries
Keywords: The United States, borders, historical, physical, physical features, historical event, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries, Unknown, 1840
Source: S.E. Forman, Advanced American History (New York, NY: The Century Company, 1919)
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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