The act is a long one, extends to all the states and organized territories and the District of Columbia, and varies its operation according to local situations and conditions.
The "United States", when used in a geographical sense, comprises the several States, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the organized territories under the jurisdiction of the United States Government.
During the postwar sectional crisis Webster nevertheless spoke out, March 7 , 1850 in favour of Clay's compromise proposals, one of which would organize territories in the Mexican cession with no prohibition of slavery.
The Northwest Territory was the first organized incorporated territory of the U.S., but it wouldn't be the last.
The Territory of Indiana was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4 ,1800, until November 7, 1816, when the remaining southern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Indiana.
The provisional government organized the territory of Assiniboia in March 1870 and enacted a law code in April.
The French organized this territory as a protectorate (what came to be known as Indochine, or French Indochina), with its administrative centre at Vientiane, and allowed it autonomy in local matters.
"She organized her territory and her personnel and got things done, in my mind more effectively and more forcefully than her predecessors," Phillips said, adding that, under House, the Journal in Asia and Europe became profitable.
Nevada, which came within U.S. sovereignty under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), was a part of California until it was incorporated into the newly organized Utah Territory in 1850.
