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last major effort made by Indians of southern New England
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Indian dispute on the frontier
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ended Revolutionary War
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Ended War of 1812
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Florida ceded to United States
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The treaty, named after Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Spanish minister Louis de Onís, ceded Florida to the United States. In exchange, the United States agreed to pay up to $5 million in damages to Americans who had claims against Spain and to forfeit any claims to Texas.
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In 1853 President Franklin Pierce sent James Gadsden to negotiate with Mexico. Gadsden was president of the South Carolina Railroad and a former military officer who had been involved in the forcible removal of Seminole Indians in Florida. The Mexican government was in desperate need of money, and it agreed to sell a small strip of land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the United States for $10 million. The railroad project was delayed by the Civil War, but eventually the Southern Pacific Railroa
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Republic of Texas voluntarily asked to become a part of the United States, and the government of the United States agreed to annex the nation
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the two countries (Britain and the U.S.) reached an agreement to divide the territory at the 49th parallel.
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the two countries (Mexico and U.S.) signed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. state, and ceded a large chunk of land — about half the area that belonged to the Mexican republic — to the United States for the cost of $15 million.
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In 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward met with Russian diplomats and, after an all-night negotiating session that ended at 4 a.m., arranged for the United States to purchase Alaska for the cost of $7.2 million — about two cents per acre.
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In 1898, a new president, William McKinley, came to office and agreed to annex the islands. Hawaii became the 50th state of the union in 1959.
