What are all the territories of the USA and when were they acquired by the USA?

Question: What are all the territories of the USA and when were they acquired by the USA!?
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The political units and divisions of the United States include:

* The 50 states (4 of these being officially styled as Commonwealths), which are typically divided into counties and townships, and incorporated cities, towns, villages, and other types of municipalities, and other autonomous or subordinate public authorities and institutions!. With the exception of the original 13, each state was admitted to the Union at a specific time by an act of the U!.S!. Congress!.
* The District of Columbia, which constitutes the city of Washington, the Capital of the United States!. Although the District of Columbia is not a state and does not send Senators or voting Representatives to Congress, residents can vote in presidential elections and are represented in the Electoral College!.
* Territories of the United States may be incorporated (part of the United States proper) or unincorporated (known variously as "possessions", "overseas territories" or "commonwealths") Territories may also be organized (with self-government explicitly granted by an Organic Act of the U!.S!. Congress) or unorganized (without such direct authorization of self-government)!. 31 of the current 50 states were organized incorporated territories before their admission to the Union!. Since 1959, the United States has had only one incorporated territory (Palmyra Atoll), but maintains control of several unincorporated territories, both organized and unorganized!.

Unincorporated (United States' possessions)

Inhabited

* American Samoa (unorganized; self-governing under authority of the U!.S!. Department of the Interior)
* Guam (organized under Organic Act of 1950)
* Northern Mariana Islands (commonwealth, organized under 1977 Covenant)
* Puerto Rico (commonwealth, organized under terms of the 1950 Puerto Rico-Federal Relations Act)
* U!.S!. Virgin Islands (organized under Revised Organic Act of 1954)

Uninhabited

Along with Palmyra Atoll, these form the United States Minor Outlying Islands:

* Baker Island
* Howland Island
* Jarvis Island
* Johnston Atoll
* Kingman Reef
* Midway Islands (administered as the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge) - small amount of contractors present
* Navassa Island
* Wake Island- small amount of contractors present
* Petrel Islands
* Serranilla Bank

From July 18, 1947 until October 1, 1994, the U!.S!. administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, but more recently entered into a new political relationship with all four political units (one of which is the Northern Mariana Islands listed above, the others being the three freely-associated states noted below)!.

[edit] Freely-associated states

The freely-associated states are the three sovereign states with which the United States has entered into a Compact of Free Association!. They have not been within U!.S!. jurisdiction since they became sovereign; however, many considered them to be dependencies of the United States until each was admitted to the United Nations in the 1990s!.

* Republic of the Marshall Islands
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Republic of PalauWww@QuestionHome@Com

Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa and certain Mariana Islands!.

and some minor islands, some of which are also claimed by Haiti, Columbia, and the Marshal Islands!.

See the wickipedia link and scan down to the relative part!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i dont know the answer to that question, but i can tell you something really stupid about our land and boundrys,

America currently owns land some where off of america!. well, america owns a jail in mexico!. the finest pice of land is there!. and we wasted a prison on the little land!.

so i guess you could say that they were tourtured in an american jail, but not in america :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Guam 1898
Puerto Rico 1898
United States Virgin Islands 1917
Northern Mariana Islands 1947
Iraq 2003
Iran 2009
Canada 2011Www@QuestionHome@Com

look at your history book and do ur own homeworkWww@QuestionHome@Com