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Proclamation of 1763
Stopped the westward expansion beyond the Appalachians.British tied up the colonists to keep them close to the English colonial by keeping them from the coast. -
Norhtwest Territory
(1783-1787) Treaty of Paris- Gained ohio River and Land Ordinance. Northwest Ordinance broke land into acres to have better education, stop debt. In 1787 prohibits slavery -
Louisiana Purchase
Doubled the size of the 13 states and gained New Orleans and the Mississippi River. -
Red River Basin
The U.S acquired land from the treaty (Louisiana Purchase) which would become part of states of Minnesota and North Dakota. It is 45,000 square miles, -
West & East Florida
Florida was highly populated by Seminole Indians who were causing much trouble in the American Territory. In (1819) the two countries signed a treaty called Adam-Onis Treaty. In exchange the U.S agreed to pay up to $5 million in damages to Americans who had claims against Spain and to forget any claims to Texas -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Treaty- Was a treaty that solved several border issues between the U.S and British North American colonies. It established a border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods, which started the Treaty of Paris. -
Texas Annexation
Texas would have to keep both public lands and public debt. Texas also had to deliver all military, postal, and customs facilities and authority to the U.S. government. It came to the Union as the 28th state. It also led to the Mexican-American war -
Mexican Cession
A peace treaty was signed with Mexico on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe-Hidalgo. (treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo). The Mexican Cession included land that would later become California, Nevada, and Utah and some portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. -
Oregon Territory
west of the Rocky mountains and between California and tip of Alaska. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Mexican government was in dire need of money and agreed to sell a small piece of land along the U.S and Mexican border to the U.S for $10 million. The Gadsden Purchase included land in present day Arizona and New Mexico. -
Alaska
the U.S arranged to purchase Alaska for the cost of $7.2 million.Attitudes started to change with the discovery of gold in Alaska in 1890.In 1959, about one hundred years later it had become an American territory and was the 49th state of the United States -
Hawaii
Three nations had to compete against one another to gain special trading privileges there. American sugar plantation owners came to the Hawaiian economy so that they could sell sugar without having to worrying about the U.S government putting a tariff on it. January 1893, planters in Hawaii wanted to get rid of the Queen. They called the U.S. armed forces for help.
