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"Admission." States are admitted to the Union. Territories can be annexed (e.g. Hawai'i Territory) or purchased (e.g. Louisiana Territory) or ceded (e.g. Mexican Cession).
Though not always considered a Southwest state, the eastern half of Oklahoma was known as Indian Territory from 1834 to 1907, when it was joined with the Oklahoma Territory.
The Adams-Onis treaty of 1819 made Florida a US territory. It was named for John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State who negotiated the treaty for the US and Luis de Onis, the Spanish foreign minister.
anwestern territory,what asks to be admitted as a free state
the state is Ohio