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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the belief that americans had the god given right to expand from the east coast of North America to the west coast. -
Original Thirteen colonies
The U.S. got this land by winning the American Revolution and it was the first part of the United States.When we first started our economy was bad. -
Northwest Territory
The U.S, got this land by winning the American Revoution and they had trouble deciding what to do with all this land and which states would be slave and which states would be free. -
Louisiana Purchase
It was a peaceful purchase from Thomas Jefferson between the French for 15milion dollars that gave the U.S. land all the way west to the Mississippi River.This would double size of the united states. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
It was a treaty that settled the border with Spain and it said that the U.S. gave away claims for Texas but Spain gave up claims for west Florida. -
Texas Annexation
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the reason of the Texas Annexation and Texas wasn't allowed as a state because they didn't want to have slavery everywhere.Texas entered as it own country and its economy was very weak. -
Mexican Cession
The U.S. got this land by winning the Mexican-American war and we increased the size of the U.S. by Twenty-Five percent -
Oregon Territory
Oregon was first owned by four different countries (Britain,U.S,Spain,and Russia).We eventually just owned it with Great Britain but we ended up with it. -
Gadsden Purchase
We purchased this land to stop a war and we paid 10 million dollars and got parts of what is now Arizona and New Mexico.This was the end of Manifest Destiny
