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Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Jones Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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een accomplished during theAdministration of Lincoln. In March of 1861,the Territory of Dakota, destined, after twenty-seven years, to become two great States, wasdetached from Nebraska on the north, andgiven a distinct political organization. TheTerritory embraced an area of one hundredand fifty thousand square miles. The Stateof Kansas had at last, on the 29th of January,1861, been admitted into the Union, under aconstitution framed at Wyandotte. In Febru-ary of 1863, Arizona, with an area of one hun-dred and thirteen thousand square miles, wasseparated from New Mexico on the west, and THE UNITED STATES.—THE CIVIL WAR. 173 organized as an independent Territory. On tlie3d of Marcli of thie same year, Idaho was or-ganized out of portions of Dakota, Nebraslta,and Washington Territories, and on the 26lh miles. On the 1st of March, 1867, the Terri-tory of Nebraska, reduced to its present areaof seventy-six thousand square miles, was admit-ted into the Union as the thirty-seventh State.
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POWX THE YI-KiiX. ALASKA. of May, 1864, Montana, with an area of one Iniii-dred and thirtv-six thousand sqnaro miles, wascut off from the eastern part of Idaho. Bythis measure the area of the latter Territorywa.s reduced to eighty-six thousand square Finally, on the 26th of July, 1868, the Territoryof Wyoming, with an area of ninety-eightthousand square miles, was organized out ofportions of Dakota, Idaho, and Utah. Thuswere the Territories of the great West reduced 174 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. uo their present limits, as represented in theaccompanying map. Tlie year 1867 was also signalized by lliePurchase of Alaska. Two years previouslythis country had been explored by a corps ofAmerican scientists, with a view of establishingtelegraphic communication between the UnitedStates and Asia by way of Behriug Strait.The report of the exploration showed thatAlaska was hy no means the worthless countrywhich it had been supposed to be. It wasfound that the coast fisheries, inclu

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