Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from 1796 to 1798. On June 1, 1796, the Southwest Territory was admitted as the state of Tennessee. On May 7, 1798, the United States created Mississippi Territory from the territory awarded to it by "Pinckney's Treaty" in 1795, which Georgia considered to be a part of its western land claim.
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