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America Transformed: By 1831, the land east of the Mississippi had been divided into 24 states and the Michigan territory. In addition, American settlement and Native dispossession started to expand west of the Mississippi with the addition of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri. The mapmakers also labeled the lands occupied by the Tsalagi (Cherokee), Mvskoke (Creek), Chikasha (Chickasaw), and Chahta (Choctaw) in large capital letters, although just a year earlier, the federal government had enacted the Indian Removal Act, which forced many tribes from their ancestral homelands. The law paved the way for the Trail of Tears, the name given to a series of forced relocations of these Native nations.
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Document identity
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7h149x223
label
Map of the United States
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
7h149x223
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of the United States
description
America Transformed: By 1831, the land east of the Mississippi had been divided into 24 states and the Michigan territory. In addition, American settlement and Native dispossession started to expand west of the Mississippi with the addition of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri. The mapmakers also labeled the lands occupied by the Tsalagi (Cherokee), Mvskoke (Creek), Chikasha (Chickasaw), and Chahta (Choctaw) in large capital letters, although just a year earlier, the federal government had enacted the Indian Removal Act, which forced many tribes from their ancestral homelands. The law paved the way for the Trail of Tears, the name given to a series of forced relocations of these Native nations.
date
["[1831]"]
year
1831
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_008443
creators
Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
United States--Maps
subjectsGeographic
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Philadelphia
publisher
S. Augustus Mitchell
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
38
schema:longitude
-98
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 107 x 84 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Prime meridian: Washington.
Insets: Vicinity of Albany -- Vicinity of the falls of Niagara -- Vicinity of Boston -- Vicinity of New York -- Vicinity of Philadelphia -- Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington -- Vicinity of Charleston -- Vicinity of N. Orleans -- Map of North America includes all the recent geographical discoveries.
Includes statistics table, canal length and distance tables, and comparative height and length diagrams.
"Entered according to act of Congress... October 10th. 1831..."
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no
dcId
7h149x223
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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1541fcbad3ea697c