United States Historical Maps

As directed by the President, the Gulf of America enters the USGS official place names database Office of Communications and Publishing

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/directed-president-gulf-america-enters-usgs-official-place-names-database Feb 14, 2025 "USGS and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names have implemented name changes following Executive and Secretary’s Orders. Last week, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names played an essential role to enact the Secretary’s Order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America." U.S. Geological Survey

Native American Tribes - Map Quiz Game

• https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3291 is a Seterra game that identifies these 17 tribes: Aleut, Algonquian, Apache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chinook, Chumash, Cree, Crow, Navajo, Nez Perce, Pequot, Pueblo, Seminole, Shoshone, Sioux, Tillamook.

Red Map, Blue Map David Skinner

• https://www.neh.gov/article/red-map-blue-map Aug 29, 2023 "In the 1970s and ’80s, geographer Ken Martis mapped every congressional district and color-coded them by political party, going all the way back to the first Congress." National Endowment for the Humanities

Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860 Copy 1

• https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3861e.cw0013200 Washington Henry S. Graham 1861 Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860 LOC Collections with Maps

Map of the United States Including Western Territories

Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood Library of Congress

• https://loc.gov/exhibits/mapping-a-growing-nation/online-exhibition.html Sep 1, 2016 "On September 3, 1783, American and British representatives signed the Treaty of Paris that formally concluded the American Revolution and recognized the United States as an independent nation. In March 1784, only six months later, Abel Buell (1742–1822), an engraver from Connecticut, produced his New and Correct Map of the United States of North America,which, among other things, has been recognized as the very first map of the newly independent United States to be compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. Additionally, the 1784 publication is the first map to be copyrighted in the United States, registered under the auspices of the Connecticut State Assembly."Library of Congress Exhibitions

Abel Buell's New and Correct Map of the United States, 1784 

• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mapping-a-growing-nation/online-exhibition.html#obj-buell This landmark map of extraordinary significance to the historical record of the United States was published by Abel Buell in 1784. Notably, this is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. Additionally, it is also the first map to be copyrighted in the United States. Only seven copies are known to exist and survive in major institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain. LOC Exhibits

Animated Map Shows History Of Immigration To The US 3:45

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe79i1mu-mc Oct 19, 2016 In 1607, the English established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. Over the coming centuries, millions of people from around the globe were attracted to this New World that came to be the US for a chance at a better life. Today, more than 1 in 8 Americans are immigrants, and almost all are descendants of those born in foreign lands. Business Insider

• https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3701sm.gct00482/?st=gallery&c=80 1. Title page -- 2. Early voyages and discoveries -- 3. Spanish explorations -- 4. French explorations -- 5. English explorations -- 6. Indian tribes -- 7. National claims -- 8. Early grants -- 9. Grants and development of the New England colonies -- 10. Grants and development of the Middle Atlantic colonies -- 11. Grants and development of the southern colonies -- 12. Early settlements -- 13. French and Indian Wars -- 14. Results of the French and Indian Wars -- 15. The thirteen original colonies in 1774 -- 16. The Revolutionary War, 1775-1776 -- 17. The Revolutionary War, 1776-1777 -- 18. The Revolutionary War, 1777-1781 -- 19. Results of the Revolutionary War, 1783 -- 20. Western land claims, territorial organizations, 1783-1812 -- 21. Louisiana Purchase, 1803. Florida Purchase, 1819 -- 22. Explorations in the West, 1804-1845 -- 23. War of 1812 -- 24. Physical map of the United States -- 25. Back cover -- 26. The Missouri Compromise, 1820 -- 27. The Republic of Texas and the United States in 1837 -- 28. The northern boundary of the United States -- 29. The United States in 1846 -- 30. The Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- 31. Results of the Mexican War, 1848 -- 32. The compromise of 1850 -- 33. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 -- 34. The United States in 1861 -- 35. The Civil War, first year, 1861-1862 -- 36. The Civil War, second year, 1862-1863 -- 37. The Civil War, third year, 1863-1864 -- 38. The Civil War, fourth year, 1864-1865 -- 39. Indian Wars -- 40. The Spanish-American War, 1898 -- 41. Acquisitions of territory -- 42. Admission of the states -- 43. The United States in 1919 -- 44. United States island possessions, 1919 -- 45. North Pole, South Pole -- 46. The Panama Canal -- 47. The Panama Canal.