in Africa. The Kalahari Desert (Dorsland in Afrikaans) is a large semi-arid savanna in South Africa covers 900,000 km Â² sand (350,000 square miles) that much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
The Oregon Territory, 1846. Along with territorial disputes with Spain and Mexico over the Southwest, the fate of the Oregon Territory was one of the major diplomatic issues of the first half of the 19th century.
A territory becomes a state by an Act of Congress. Utah Territory tried several times to get admitted to the Union, starting in 1849. The state the LDS first proposed was gigantic. It covered territory that now belongs to Colorado, Nevada and Utah. The second time, they tried for a smaller piece of land, but because U.S. citizens disliked the practice of polygamy among the Mormons, Congress did not want to give the Mormons statehood.