New trouble threatened to break out in the territory of Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The rate is as high as eighty percent among women in the territory of American Samoa.

VOA: special.2010.08.23

Throughout the territory - in the mountains, along the streams and rivers - thousands of people searched for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

On the question of slavery in the new territories, Cass believed that the people of the territory should make the decision.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

So they took an extreme step. They formed their own government in opposition to the elected government of the territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Buchanan told him that slavery in the territory must be decided on the votes of the people of the territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory to security in the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The president gave the pro-slavery governor of Kansas control of troops at two army bases in the territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

In the early years of the war, Confederate forces had moved through the valley to strike northern territory.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Then the chief justice took up the question of the free territory in which Scott had lived.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

In Washington, President Pierce announced the appointment of Andrew Reeder to be governor of the Kansas territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The government built a series of bases in the New Mexico territory to protect the settlers and goods moving along the Santa Fe Trail.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Our story begins in an area called the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of western Canada.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Most of the reservations were in Indian territory in what is now the state of Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

They met and formed their own government in opposition to the elected government of the territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The seat of government in Santa Fe for the Spanish, the Mexicans and the American territory was a building called the Palace of the Governors.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

They were given land in Indian territory in what is now the state of Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

They were given a large area of land north of Wyoming in the Dakota territory.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

He said the citizen from Georgia had as much right to settle in this territory with his slaves as a citizen of Maine with his horse.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

They wanted to seize the territory and Fort Union in an effort to find paths to the Pacific Ocean and to the gold fields of Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Roosevelt moved to a ranch in the Dakota territory of the American West.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Alaska became an official territory of the United States in nineteen twelve.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Russia took control of the territory in the seventeen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

They opposed the compromise, because it might permit slavery in the New Mexico territory, and because it called for stronger laws on the return of slaves who had escaped to the North.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Mr.Erdogan accused Israel of "barbarian acts" during the 22-day Gaza incursion, which Israel launched in response to a wave of deadly rocket attacks from Palestinian territory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

In his homily the archbishop said the management of the unique heritage of this beautiful and fascinating territory, rich in colors, vegetation and art, is lacking.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

Palestinian officials say the current construction of thousands of Jewish homes will continue for years, creating facts on the ground in territory claimed for a future Palestinian state.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21