Territory (United States)
As a territory of the United States ( English United States territory ) is designated an area of governance of the US federal government is under, but not a U.S. state or part of any state. It is therefore a federal territory and not a member of the United States.
The United States claims all sovereign rights over its territories. The “competence to approve new states” falls to the federal government . New territories were acquired partly through purchase (e.g. Louisiana Purchase and Alaska Purchase ) and partly through annexation (e.g. Texas , Nevada ). All former territories on mainland North America are now US states. Last in 1959, the territories of Alaska and Hawaii became states. However, the USA and its outlying areas still have territories. The District of Columbia is not a territory of the United States, nor is it a state, but subordinate to the United States Congress .
Little consideration was given to the interests and demands of the native Indian population when acquiring new territories ( American Indian policy ).
The United States currently owns territories in the Caribbean and Pacific , the outer territories of the United States .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Jäger, Christoph M. Haas, Wolfgang Welz (Hrsg.): Government system of the USA. Instructional and manual . 3. Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 78 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Norbert B. Wagner: Reine Staatslehre . tape 1 : States, fictitious states and the Germany paradox. Volume 1. Lit Verlag, Münster 2015, p. 593 , note 235 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ US Territories. In: uscis.org . 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 .