A military spokesman told VOA that the army hoped to free all civilians trapped in rebel territory by Sunday.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

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

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Most of the people who wrote the books had no idea at all where the Canadian Yukon Territory was.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

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

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

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

This law kept slavery out of the northern part of the territory which the United States bought from France.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Scott was sold in Missouri to an army doctor who took him to Illinois and then went into the Wisconsin territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

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

However,he said no federal law could make slavery legal in a territory where the people did not want it.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Their discovery started a rush of people traveling to the American territory of Alaska and across the border to Canada.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

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

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

VOA: special.2009.05.07