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There was a treaty that made Spain give East and West Florida to the United States, and the United States agreed to assume claims by citizens of the United States against Spain. The significance of the treaty is that the US territory would be expanded to the Pacific coastline.
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Manifest Destiny is an American dream to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
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The Americans pushed the Native Americans out of their territory because the Americans were moving west. It impacted America by not having to deal with Native Americans within the boundaries of the state. -
The Americans annexed Texas in 1845. In 1836 Mexico had control over the land but settlers from America declared independence. -
After the US annexation of Texas. A Mexican Calvary attacked an American camp killing around 15 men. The Americans fought them and eventually won. American settlers took advantage and invaded Texas.
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This Law allows adult U.S. citizens 160 acres of surveyed land. The citizens have to stay on the land for 5 straight years and file the land to be able to keep it. (It ended in 1976 when 48 out of the 50 states repealed the Act.) It was impacted by quickening the rate of settlers in the west. And it also freed slaves. -
Before America had claimed Texas it was a sovereign state. It was a part of Mexico and they had got the land from a treaty that they made in 1819. After it made texas a slave state and the biggest state in the US.