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Featured listTerritorial evolution of the United States is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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August 9, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 2, 2024.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the borders of the states and territories of the United States have changed over 90 times since the United States Constitution was adopted by the Philadelphia Convention on 13 July 1787?
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    Too Much Copy Of Images

    There are lots of images that some of them are a copy of them and the title is disputes what is this I've never seen this before can someone change this so I can better understand what it is explained 2A01:E0A:AAF:AB40:31D0:440:25D:B753 (talk) 21:31, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thirteen Colonies

    The territories of 1776 need to be revisited. Claims at the time to territories populated by Native American groups significantly inland from the coast were tenuous and not definitive. The maps should indicate this. إيان (talk) 08:20, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    There are a lot of ways to interpret this request, and I'm not saying this is the best or only way. But this has reminded me that it would be a good idea to at the very least, include the treaties the US signed with the native nations - it wouldn't count necessarily as a border change, since the US has never considered the native nations as independent and this map is, for better or for worse but mainly for a single objective point of view, purely about that. But, like how I include several "unofficial" changes that were nonetheless very important (like State of Franklin, Jefferson Territory, Kearney's New Mexico, etc.), then I should include the treaties. I'll start work on that tonight, I've been looking for a new map project. --Golbez (talk) 03:02, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    This could be very interesting, so long as you don't overdo it. Focus on the most important examples and indicate that these changes were "unofficial" from the perspective of the United States. Keep up the good work. Columbianmammoth (talk) 03:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    "Decolonization" header

    It can't be removed, so what should it be replaced with? The majority of entries in that block are of the US recognizing other sovereigns for land they've claimed for decades, so "decolonization" seemed most relevant. --Golbez (talk) 16:11, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    "Decolonization" (and "imperialism") could be politically controversial words in the context of the United States, if that's what you're asking, so avoiding it would be ideal. But, like you said, it's hard to think of a better word that suits the context of this article. Columbianmammoth (talk) 03:20, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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