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| Territory of Mississippi | |||||||||||||||||
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| Organized incorporated territory of United States | |||||||||||||||||
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| Capital | Natchez | ||||||||||||||||
| • Type | Organized incorporated territory | ||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||
• Mississippi Organic Act passed | 7 April 1798 | ||||||||||||||||
• Georgia recognizes its present borders | 1802 | ||||||||||||||||
• Georgia cession added to Mississippi Territory | 1804 | ||||||||||||||||
• Mobile District annexed | 1812 | ||||||||||||||||
• Alabama Territory created | August 15, 1817 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 December 1817 | |||||||||||||||||
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The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by both upper and lower chambers (the Senate and House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States, meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill, in the federal national capital city of Washington, D.C.. It was approved and signed into law by second President John Adams 1735-1826, served 1797-1801), on April 7, 1798.[1]
The Territory was dissolved after 19 years on December 10, 1817, when the western half of the Territory was admitted to the Union as the newState of Mississippi. The eastern half was redesignated by the Congress and then 5th President of the United States|President]] James Monroe as the new Alabama Territory for the next two years, sandwiched between the new state of Mississippi in the west, [[Georgia to the east,, Tennessee on the north, and to the south with a narrow strip of land to the Mobile Bay and Gulf of Mexico coast and further to the southeast of the western panhandle of the Royal Spanish colony of Spanish Florida in the Florida peninsula (future Florida Territory after 1819, and later state of Florida by 1845).
The [Territory of Alabama]] was admitted to the Union as the State of Alabama on December 14, 1819. The Chattahoochee River played a significant role in the definition of the Territory's borders during its brief two years of existence, 1817-1819.
The population greatly increased in the southeast United States with movement and immigration from the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean as it grew in the early 1800s from settlement, and American westward and southwestward expansion from the original Thirteen States, with cotton being an important cash crop.