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No, Illinois was never purchased. It was claimed by the French but soon ceded to the British and then later to Virginia who claimed it as part of their territory. A few years later Virginia gave up their claim to Illinoise territory to the United States who then deemed it part of the Northwest Territories.
George Rogers Clark is known as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest" because he led the successful military campaign that claimed the Northwest Territory for America from the British. This territory was bounded by the Great Lakes to the north and east, the Ohio River to the south, and the Mississippi River to the west.
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The United States was broken into territories before it was split into individual states. The state that claimed land in the Northwest Territory was Ohio.
Pennsylvania and Virginia. Incidentally, Toledo was claimed by the State of Ohio and the Territory of Michigan.
The Northwest ordinance was an agreement that in the territories to the Northwest would not have any slavery. The Mason Dixon line was also created, it was a line that separated the North from the South just above Maryland. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 claimed that new slaves could not be in the territory above this line.
The explorer who claimed territory for the Dutch was Henry Hudson. He discovered both the Hudson River in present-day New York and Hudson Bay in Canada while searching for a Northwest Passage to Asia.
In 1763, the two countries that likely claimed land bordering the dispute in the Pacific Northwest were Spain and Britain. Spain claimed territory to the south, while Britain claimed territory to the north of the region, leading to overlapping claims and eventual conflicts over control in the area.
The English claimed Virginia in 1607
Spain claimed the territory of Florida
Fighting began when the king of France tried to take the territory claimed by England in southern France and England also claimed the territory.